Un pilota ritorna
- Artefact Type:
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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
State art Totalitarian art New Man Consensus Escapism Public or civic sphere Individuality Sacralization Statalization Totalitarian consent Historicity Public spectacle