Artefacts

Un pilota ritorna

Artefact Type:

film

Description:
This film, part of Rossellini's 'war trilogy', has clear propaganda purposes, but already foreruns neorealism, especially in some strongly humanistic sequences. Vittorio Mussolini is the author of the script, under the pseudonym-anagram Tito Silvio Mursino. An Italian pilot on the Greek front is obliged to parachute and is captured by the English; he escapes and manages to fly back to Italy, but is mistaken for an enemy and wouded. He manages to land, only to find out that Greece surrendered.

Duration (mins):
88
Release Date:
1942-04-08
Director:
> Roberto Rossellini
Assistant Director:
> Cesare Cirosi
Composer:
> Renzo Rossellini
Screenwriter:
> Gherardo Gherardi
Screenwriter:
> Michelangelo Antonioni
Screenwriter:
> Rosario Leone
Screenwriter:
> Margherita Maglione
Screenwriter:
> Massimo Mida
Screenwriter:
> Ugo Betti
Scenic Designer:
> Franco Bartoli
Scenic Designer:
> Virgilio Marchi
Actor:
> Massimo Girotti
Actor:
> Michela Beomonte (known as 'Michela Belmonte')
Actor:
> Gaetano Masier
Actor:
> Pietro Lulli
Actor:
> Elvira Betrone
Production Company:
> A.C.I.
Genre:
> War Drama

Tags: State art Totalitarian art New Man Consensus Escapism Public or civic sphere Individuality Sacralization Statalization Totalitarian consent Historicity Public spectacle

Themes:

War Propaganda