Sentinels of Bronze

Sentinels of Bronze
Directed by	Romolo Marcellini
Written by	Gian Gaspare Napolitano Marcello Orano Sandro Sandri Romolo Marcellini
Starring	Fosco Giachetti Giovanni Grasso Doris Duranti Hassan Mohamed
Cinematography	Renato Del Frate
Production company	Fono Roma
Distributed by	Generalcine
Release dates	21 August 1937
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Sentinels of Bronze (Italian:Sentinelle di bronzo) is a 1937 Italian war film directed by Romolo Marcellini and starring Fosco Giachetti, Giovanni Grasso and Doris Duranti. The film is a propaganda work set in the days leading up to the outbreak of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. In an incident modeled on the Wal Wal incident an Italian outpost is besieged by large numbers of Abyssinian troops, but the garrison refuse to surrender. It was part of a series of films set in Italy's African Empire during the Fascist era.^[1]

Cast

• Fosco Giachetti as Capitano Negri
• Giovanni Grasso as Sergente Amato
• Doris Duranti as Dahabò
• Hassan Mohamed as Elmi
• Mohamed Aghi Alì as Islam
• Ali Ibrahim as Giama
• Elmi Ahmed as Ras Sciferrà
• Abdullah Ali as Hawariat

References

1. Palumbo p.294

Bibliography

• Palumbo, Patrizia. A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-unification to the Present. University of California Press, 2003.

External links

• Sentinels of Bronze at the Internet Movie Database