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

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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