Sentinels of Bronze
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| Directed by | Romolo Marcellini |
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| Cinematography | Renato Del Frate |
Production company | Fono Roma |
| Distributed by | Generalcine |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Sentinels of Bronze (Italian: Sentinelle di bronzo) is a 1937 Italian war film directed by Romolo Marcellini and starring Fosco Giachetti, Giovanni Grasso and Doris Duranti.
History
[edit]In the 1930s and 1940s, early Somali actors and film technicians co-operated with Italian crews to domestically produce Fascist films. Among the latter productions were Dub'aad and Sentinels of Bronze. The movie "Sentinels of Bronze" (Sentinelle di bronzo[1]) was awarded in the Festival di Venezia of 1937 as the "Best Italian colonial Film", winning an Italian Cup.[2]
The film is a propaganda work set in the days leading up to the outbreak of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
Topic
[edit]In an incident modeled on the Wal Wal incident, an Italian outpost is besieged by large numbers of Abyssinian troops, but the garrison refuse to surrender. It was part of a series of films set in Italy's African Empire during the Fascist era.[3]
Cast
[edit]- Fosco Giachetti as Capitano Negri
- Giovanni Grasso as Sergente Amato
- Doris Duranti as Dahabò
- Hassan Mohamed as Elmi
- Mohamed Aghi Alì as Islam
- Ali Ibrahim as Giama
- Elmi Ahmed as Ras Sciferrà
- Abdullah Ali as Hawariat
References
[edit]- ^ Original Movie Poster
- ^ Sentinelle di Bronzo (1937). Movie with Italian & Somalian actors
- ^ Palummbo; p.284
Bibliography
[edit]- Palumbo, Patrizia. A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-unification to the Present. University of California Press, 2003.
