Artefacts

Luciano Serra pilota

Artefact Type:

film

Description:
Dramatic war film, among the first to be shot at Cinecittà, celebrating key fascist themes and events like the Italian aviation, the Ethiopian war, and male heroism, but with romantic overtones. The protagonist Luciano Serra was a pilot during WW1 and emigrates to South America in 1921; he returns to Europe to fight in the Ethiopian war, and he dies as a hero to save his son, also a pilot fighting in the conflict. Vittorio Mussolini, a pilot himself, supervised the shooting.

Duration (mins):
105
Release Date:
1938
Director:
> Goffredo Alessandrini
Assistant Director:
> Umberto Scarpelli
Producer:
> Angelo Monti
Composer:
> Giulio Cesare Sonzogno
Screenwriter:
> Roberto Rossellini
Screenwriter:
> Ivo Perilli
Screenwriter:
> Francesco Masoero
Screenwriter:
> Fulvio Palmieri
Screenwriter:
> Cesare Giulio Viola
Scenic Designer:
> Gastone Medin
Actor:
> Mario Ferrari
Actor:
> Andrea Checchi
Actor:
> Giulio Sabetta (known as 'Roberto Villa')
Actor:
> Amedeo Carlo Buffa (known as 'Amedeo Nazzari')
Actor:
> Germana Paolieri
Production Company:
> AQUILA FILMS
Genre:
> War Drama

Tags: Cultural modernity Nationalism Liberalism New Man Bourgeois intellectual Consensus Avant-gardism Internationalization Crisis of the West or Western Civilization Modern realism Statalization Aesthetic theorization Totalitarian consent Historicity Aesthetic critique Cultural system or apparatus

Themes:

Colonial Propaganda