The fate of several men in a Libyan city briefly captured from Italy by the invading British in 1941, includes a focus on the role of women during these hard times.
Director: Augusto Genina.
Writers: Augusto Genina, Edoardo Anton, Ugo Betti, Alessandro De Stefani.
Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Amedeo Nazzari, Vivi Gioi, Mária Tasnádi Fekete, Augusto Genina, Guido Notari, Carlo Tamberlani, Fedele Gentile, Laura Redi, Amelia Bissi, Giorgio Costantini, Carlo Duse, Guglielmo Sinaz, Piero Heliczer.
Cinematographer: Aldo Tonti.
Composer: Antonio Veretti.
Crude, anti-British, colonialist propaganda. Worth a look for its historical interest. (And to be appalled by it all, even the supposedly adorable 4 year-old racist bambino). Cinematographer Aldo Tonti is the only name to emerge from this disjointed epic with an intact reputation,