Vecchia guardia
- Artefact Type:
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film
- Description:
- This drama film celebrates the violent origins of Fascism (the 'squadrismo'), mixing epic and comedy with both a pedagogic and retrospective purpose: in a town of central Italy, a staunch Fascist organizes punitive expeditions against left-wing workers on strike, and decides to join the March on Rome after his younger brother is killed by a left-wing worker.
- Duration (mins):
- 88
- Release Date:
- 1934
- Director:
- > Alessandro Blasetti
- Composer:
- > Umberto Mancini
- Screenwriter:
- > Giuseppe Zucca
- Screenwriter:
- > Livio Apolloni
- Screenwriter:
- > Leo Bomba
- Screenwriter:
- > Guido Albertini
- Actor:
- > Gianfranco Giachetti
- Actor:
- > Ermino Doro di Costa di Vernassino (known as 'Mino Doro')
- Actor:
- > Franco Brambilla
- Actor:
- > Andrea Checchi
- Actor:
- > Giovanni Grasso jr.
- Production Company:
- > FAUNO FILM
- Genre:
- > Drama
Heteronomy Totalitarian art Nationalism Anti-liberalism New Man Bourgeois intellectual Realism Consensus Collectivity Totalitarian realism Statalization Hegemony Aesthetic perception Totalitarian consent Historicity Aesthetic system or apparatus Cultural system or apparatus