Sun (film)

Sun (Italian: Sole) is a 1929 Italian silent drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Marcello Spada, Vasco Creti and Dria Paola. The film was set around the planned draining of the Pontine Marshes by Benito Mussolini's Fascist government.[1] It was shot partly on location, which added a sense of realism. Mussolini was impressed by the result and described it as "the dawn of the Fascist film".[2]

Sun
Directed byAlessandro Blasetti
Written byAldo Vergano
Alessandro Blasetti
StarringMarcello Spada
Vasco Creti
Dria Paola
Vittorio Vaser
CinematographyGiuseppe Caracciolo
Carlo Montuori
Giorgio Orsini
Edited byAlessandro Blasetti
Production
company
Augustus Film
Release date
16 June 1929
Running time
76 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageSilent
Italian intertitles

The film was destroyed during the Second World War, and survives only in still photographs.[3]

Cast
  • Marcello Spada as Ing. Rinaldi
  • Vasco Creti as Marco
  • Dria Paola as Giovanna
  • Vittorio Vaser as Silvestro
  • Lia Bosco as Barbara
  • Anna Vinci
  • Rolando Costantino
  • Rinaldo Rinaldi
  • Arcangelo Aversa
  • Arnaldo Baldaccini
  • Sante Bonaldo
  • Vittorio Gonzi
  • Igino Nunzio
gollark: I haven't seen evidence of people actually thinking that way.
gollark: I doubt there's someone going "MUAHAHAHAHA, I will now WORSEN MATHS EDUCATION and claim it's for equality".
gollark: Presumably, they think it's *better* and they can make people more equal by focusing on what they see as inequality in it somehow.
gollark: Redraw the states using Voroni tessellation to reduce gerrymandering.
gollark: I think schools should definitely have less of the conformity stuff, more choice of subject etc., and actual acknowledgement of the existence of computers.

References
  1. Bondanella p.14
  2. Reich & Garofalo p.235
  3. Bondanella p.14

Bibliography
  • Bondanella, Peter E. Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001.
  • Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. Re-Viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922 to 1943. Indiana University Press, 2002.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.