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1929 film

Sun
Dria Paola and Marcello Spada
Directed byAlessandro Blasetti
Written by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byAlessandro Blasetti
Production
company		Augustus Film
Release date
  • 16 June 1929 (1929-06-16)
Running time76 minutes
CountryItaly
Languages

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. 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".

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

Cast

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.

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Films directed by Alessandro Blasetti


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