Lo squadrone bianco (1936)

Directed by

Augusto Genina

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like this

How it feels

A cavalry lieutenant who is unlucky in love goes to Tripolitania to fight rebels. He redeems himself through his actions in battle.

patrioticromanticdramaticheroicmelancholicseriouswar-tornredemptive

What happens

Lo squadrone bianco (Italian for "The White Squadron") is a 1936 Italian film directed by Augusto Genina. The plot features a cavalry lieutenant, unlucky in love, who redeems himself by battling the "rebels" of Tripolitania (modern Libya). The film won the Mussolini Cup at the Venice Film Festival, during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Cavalry (1936)
• The Two Sergeants (1936)
• The Great Appeal (1936)
• Tredici uomini e un cannone (1936)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
• To Live (1936)
• God's Will Be Done (1936)
• A Woman Between Two Worlds (1936)
• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.