Luciano Serra, Pilot

Luciano Serra, Pilot
Directed by	Goffredo Alessandrini
Produced by	Angelo Monti
Written by	Francesco Masoero Fulvio Palmieri Ivo Perilli Roberto Rossellini Cesare Giulio Viola Goffredo Alessandrini
Starring	Amedeo Nazzari Germana Paolieri Roberto Villa Mario Ferrari
Music by	Giulio Cesare Sonzogno
Cinematography	Ubaldo Arata
Edited by	Giorgio Simonelli
Production company	Aquila Cinematografica
Distributed by	Generalcine
Release dates	8 August 1938
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Luciano Serra, Pilot (Italy:Luciano Serra, pilota) is a 1938 Italian drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Germana Paolieri and Roberto Villa.

It was screened at the Venice Film Festival in August 1938, where it was awarded the Mussolini Cup for Best Italian Film. It was considered the defining film of Nazzari's career, establishing him as the leading male star in Italy.^[1]

The film's assistant director Roberto Rossellini supervised the shooting of footage on location in North Africa.^[2] Rossellini made his own directorial debut three years later with The White Ship, and went on to become a leading Italian filmmaker.

Partial cast

• Amedeo Nazzari as Luciano Serra
• Germana Paolieri as Sandra Serra
• Roberto Villa as Aldo Serra
• Mario Ferrari as Il colonnello Franco Morelli
• Guglielmo Sinaz as Jose Ribera
• Egisto Olivieri as Nardini, il suocero di Luciano
• Andrea Checchi as Ten. Binelli
• Oscar Andriani as Il cappellano militare
• Olivia Fried as Dorothy Thompson
• Nicola Maldacea as Un socio del circolo
• Beatrice Mancini as La fidanzata di Aldo

References

1. Gundle p.184
2. Bondanella p.27

Bibliography

• Bondanella, Peter. A History of Italian Cinema. Continuum, 2011.
• Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

• Luciano Serra, Pilot at the Internet Movie Database