Cardinal Messias

1939 Italian film
  • Luigi Bernardi
  • Vittorio Cottafavi
  • Cesare Ludovici
  • Domenico Meccoli
  • Callisto V. Vanzin
  • Goffredo Alessandrini
Produced byAlessandro F. GagnaStarring
  • Camillo Pilotto
  • Enrico Glori
  • Mario Ferrari
  • Amedeo Trilli
CinematographyRenato Del Frate
Aldo TontiEdited byGiorgio SimonelliMusic byMario Gaudiosi
Licinio Refice
Production
company
Romana Editrice Film
Distributed byGeneralcine
Release date
  • 31 August 1939 (1939-08-31)
Running time
96 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalian

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

  1. ^ Moliterno p.313

Bibliography

  • Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

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