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(Redirected from Abuna Messias) 1939 Italian film
Cardinal Messias
Directed byGoffredo Alessandrini
Written by
Produced byAlessandro F. Gagna
Starring
CinematographyRenato Del Frate
Aldo Tonti
Edited byGiorgio Simonelli
Music byMario Gaudiosi
Licinio Refice
Production
company
Romana Editrice Film
Distributed byGeneralcine
Release date
  • 31 August 1939 (1939-08-31)
Running time96 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Cardinal Messias (Italian: Abuna Messias) is a 1939 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Camillo Pilotto, Enrico Glori and Mario Ferrari. The film was awarded the Mussolini Cup at the 1939 Venice film festival. It portrays the life of Guglielmo Massaia, a nineteenth-century Italian known for his missionary work in the Ethiopian Empire.

Cast

  • Camillo Pilotto as il cardinale Guglielmo Massaia, detto Abuna Messias
  • Enrico Glori as il re Menelik
  • Mario Ferrari as Abuna Atanasio
  • Amedeo Trilli as Ghebrà Selassié, il consigliere di Alem
  • Berché Zaitù Taclè as la principessa Alem
  • Ippolito Silvestri as il re Johannes
  • Francesco Sala as il marchese Antinori
  • Roberto Pasetti as padre Leone
  • Abd-el-Uad as il capo indigeno Abu Beker
  • Oscar Andriani as padre Reginaldo Giuliani
  • Corrado Racca as Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour

References

  1. Moliterno p.313

Bibliography

  • Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

The films of Goffredo Alessandrini


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