Etiopia 1936: alla conquista dell'impero

Overview

By means of a chronological arrangement of historical video material from the Istituto Luce archives, it tells the story of Fascist Italy's ambitions in Africa and the role they played in shaping fascist ideology and the stance of the fascist regime in the Western world at the height of the age of colonialism and aggressive European expansionism.

Directed by Luciano Doddoli, Ivan Palermo

Top cast

Riccardo Mei

Narrator (voice)

Giovanni Pascoli

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Paul von Hindenburg

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rodolfo Graziani

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Pierre Laval

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

E

Emilio De Bono

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

G

Giuseppe Bottai

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Galeazzo Ciano

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

P

Pietro Badoglio

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

A

Achille Starace

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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