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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
Directed by Carmine Gallone
“Facist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic”
War, Drama, History · 1h 23m
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
Cast
Camillo Pilotto
Hannibal
Annibale Ninchi
Publis Cornelius Scipio
Fosco Giachetti
Captain Massinissa
F
Francesca Braggiotti
Queen Sophonisba
Marcello Giorda
King Syphace
Guglielmo Barnabò
Furius, fat Roman
Isa Miranda
Velia, a Roman woman
Memo Benassi
Cato
F
Franco Coop
Mezio, Roman soldier
C
Ciro Galvani
Quinto Fabio Massimo
Carlo Lombardi
Lucio
M
Marcello Spada
Arunte
Crew
- Director
- Carmine Gallone
- Screenplay
- Carmine Gallone, Camillo Mariani Dell'Aguillara, Sebastiano Luciani
- Director of Photography
- Ubaldo Arata, Anchise Brizzi
- Original Music Composer
- Ildebrando Pizzetti
- Editor
- Oswald Hafenrichter
Details
- Original title
- Scipione l'africano
- Release date
- 1937-08-04
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- War, Drama, History
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- ENIC, Consorzio Scipione