Under the Southern Cross (1938 film)

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Under the Southern Cross

Directed by	Guido Brignone
Written by	Luigi Chiarelli Arrigo Colombo Jacopo Comin Marisa Romano
Produced by	Giorgio Carini
Starring	Antonio Centa Doris Duranti Enrico Glori Giovanni Grasso
Cinematography	Arturo Gallea Aldo Tonti
Edited by	Giuseppe Fatigati
Music by	Renzo Rossellini
Production company	Mediterranea Film
Distributed by	CINF
Release date	October 1938 (1938-10)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Under the Southern Cross (Italian: Sotto la croce del sud) is a 1938 Italian drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Antonio Centa, Doris Duranti and Enrico Glori.^[1] The film is set in Italian-occupied Abyssinia following the recent Italian victory there.^[2] It was one of a sequence of eight films set in Italy's African Empire during the Fascist era that were released between 1936 and 1939.^[3] The film is a propaganda piece designed to support Fascist policy on empire and concerns about inter-racial romances.

It was shot at the Tirrenia Studios in Tuscany and on location in the Galla Territory of Italian Ethiopia.

Synopsis

Marco the owner of a coffee plantation in Abyssinia, is trying to play his part in building the new Italian Empire. He becomes concerned however that his Italian staff, in the absence of their wives and families, are becoming overly attracted to native woman. His junior partner Paolo has to resist the allures of Mailù, an attractive young Middle Eastern woman.

Main cast

Antonio Centa as Paolo
Doris Duranti as Mailù
Enrico Glori as Simone
Giovanni Grasso as Marco, il capo della piantagione
Salvatore Cuffaro as Pisani
Carlo Duse as Donati
Fausto Guerzoni as Coppola
Enrico Marroni as Todini
Felice Minotti as Riva
Piero Pastore as Casale

References

^ Reich & Garofalo p.160
^ Forgacs p.81
^ Palumbo p.294

Bibliography

Forgacs, David. Italy's Margins: Social Exclusion and Nation Formation since 1861. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Palumbo, Patrizia. A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-unification to the Present. University of California Press, 2003.
Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943. Indiana University Press, 2002.

External links

Under the Southern Cross at IMDb

The films of Guido Brignone

The Painting of Osvaldo Mars (1921)
The Pearl of Cleopatra (1922)
The Two Sergeants (1922)
The Flight of Socrates (1923)
Saetta Learns to Live (1924)
Emperor Maciste (1924)
Maciste in the Lion's Cage (1926)
The Giant of the Dolomites (1927)
Mary's Big Secret (1928)
The Man Without Love (1929)
Devotion (1929)
Before the Jury (1931)
The Charmer (1931)
La Wally (1932)
Paradise (1932)
Pergolesi (1932)
Just Married (1934)
The Little Schoolmistress (1934)
Loyalty of Love (1934)
Red Passport (1935)
Ginevra degli Almieri (1935)
The Ancestor (1936)
Beggar's Wedding (1936)
Marcella (1937)
To Live (1937)
For Men Only (1938)
Under the Southern Cross (1938)
Kean (1940)
Beatrice Cenci (1941)
The Gorgon (1942)
Disturbance (1942)
Maria Malibran (1943)
Baron Carlo Mazza (1948)
Buried Alive (1949)
The Count of Saint Elmo (1950)
Il nido di Falasco (1950)
The Ungrateful Heart (1951)
Deceit (1952)
Ivan, Son of the White Devil (1953)
Storms (1953)
The Courier of Moncenisio (1954)
Sunset in Naples (1955)
Sheba and the Gladiator (1959)

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