Carthage's fall

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Movie
German title Carthage's fall
Original title Scipione l'Africano
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1937
length 117 minutes
Rod
Director Carmine gallon
script Carmine Gallone,
Camillo Mariani Dell'Aguillara ,
Sebastiano A. Luciani ,
Silvio Maurano
production Consorzione 'Scipio l'Africano', Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche (ENIC)
music Ildebrando Pizzetti
camera Ubaldo Arata ,
Anchise Brizzi
cut Oswald Hafenrichter
occupation

Karthagos Fall (original title Scipione l'Africano ) is a monumental film produced in fascist Italy in 1937 , which deals with the battle of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus against Hannibal in the Second Punic War . The film was conceived as a propaganda film that should relate Benito Mussolini's colonial efforts in Africa to the victories of the Roman Republic . The film was the first film to be shot in Cinecittà at great expense and massive government support , but was unsuccessful at the box office. This was due to the staging, which was perceived as boring, except for the spectacularly staged Battle of Zama , based primarily on theatrical-rhetorical scenes and the unconvincing main actor Annibale Ninchi , whom Mussolini described as a "flabby face".

Scipione l'Africano remained the only monumental film of the fascist regime with an ancient Roman theme. The film ran in the German Reich in late summer 1938 under the title "Karthagos Fall".

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