Giarabub | |
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Directed by | Goffredo Alessandrini |
Written by | Oreste Biancoli Alberto Consiglio Gherardo Gherardi Asvero Gravelli Gian Gaspare Napolitano Orio Vergani |
Starring | Carlo Ninchi Mario Ferrari Doris Duranti Carlo Romano |
Cinematography | Giuseppe Caracciolo Livio Dall'Aglio |
Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma |
Music by | Renzo Rossellini |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Scalera Film |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Giarabub is a 1942 Italian war film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Carlo Ninchi, Mario Ferrari and Doris Duranti.[1] The film was a propaganda work which portrayed the Siege of Giarabub (1940–41) during the Second World War, in which Italian troops defended Jaghbub, Libya, for three months against Allied forces.
Partial cast
- Carlo Ninchi as Il maggiore Castagna
- Mario Ferrari as Il capitano Del Grande
- Doris Duranti as Dolores
- Carlo Romano as Il maresciallo Romano
- Annibale Betrone as Il dottor Alberti
- Elio Steiner as Il tenente Negri
- Erminio Spalla as Il meccanico "Mago Bakù" Brambilla
- Corrado De Cenzo as Il capitano De Cenzo
- Guido Notari as Il maggiore Squillace
- Mario Liberati as Il telegrafista Liberati
- Nico Pepe as Il tenente Corsi
- Emilio Cigoli as Il maggiore John Williams
References
- ^ Gundle p.237
Bibliography
- Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links
Categories:
- 1942 films
- Italian war films
- 1942 war films
- 1940s Italian-language films
- Films directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
- World War II films made in wartime
- Films set in 1940
- Films set in 1941
- Films set in Libya
- North African campaign films
- Italian black-and-white films
- Films scored by Renzo Rossellini
- Italian World War II films
- 1940s Italian films
- 1940s Italian film stubs