Under the Southern Cross (1938)
- Original title
- Sotto la croce del sud
- Directed by
- Guido Brignone
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 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.
How it feels
An Italian man falls in love with a local woman in Italian-occupied Abyssinia after the Italian victory there. The film promotes the Fascist view on empire and warns against inter-racial romances.
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What happens
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. The film is set in Italian-occupied Abyssinia following the recent Italian victory there. 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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Star of the Sea (1938)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.