Cardinal Messias
1939 Italian film
- Luigi Bernardi
- Vittorio Cottafavi
- Cesare Ludovici
- Domenico Meccoli
- Callisto V. Vanzin
- Goffredo Alessandrini
- Camillo Pilotto
- Enrico Glori
- Mario Ferrari
- Amedeo Trilli
Aldo Tonti
Licinio Refice
Production
company
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Romana Editrice Film
Release date
- 31 August 1939 (1939-08-31)
Running time
Cardinal Messias (Italian: Abuna Messias) is a 1939 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Camillo Pilotto, Enrico Glori and Mario Ferrari.[1] The film was awarded the Mussolini Cup at the 1939 Venice film festival. It portrays the life of Guglielmo Massaia, a nineteenth-century Italian known for his missionary work in the Ethiopian Empire.
Cast
- Camillo Pilotto as il cardinale Guglielmo Massaia, detto Abuna Messias
- Enrico Glori as il re Menelik
- Mario Ferrari as Abuna Atanasio
- Amedeo Trilli as Ghebrà Selassié, il consigliere di Alem
- Berché Zaitù Taclè as la principessa Alem
- Ippolito Silvestri as il re Johannes
- Francesco Sala as il marchese Antinori
- Roberto Pasetti as padre Leone
- Abd-el-Uad as il capo indigeno Abu Beker
- Oscar Andriani as padre Reginaldo Giuliani
- Corrado Racca as Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
References
- ^ Moliterno p.313
Bibliography
- Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- Cardinal Messias at IMDb
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The films of Goffredo Alessandrini
- The Private Secretary (1931)
- Seconda B (1934)
- Don Bosco (1935)
- A Woman Between Two Worlds (1936)
- Cavalry (1936)
- Luciano Serra, Pilot (1938)
- The Widow (1939)
- Cardinal Messias (1939)
- Bridge of Glass (1940)
- Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto (1941)
- Blood Wedding (1941)
- Giarabub (1942)
- We the Living (1942)
- Addio Kira! (1942)
- Fury (1947)
- Rapture (1950)
- Amina (1951)
- Red Shirts (1952)
- The Daughter of the Regiment (1953)
- Public Opinion (1954)
- Desert Warrior (1957)
- Mate Cosido (1962)
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