1937
5.5 (23 votes)
1h 23m
Genres
War
Drama
History
Production Companies
ENIC
Consorzio Scipione
Consorzio Scipione
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (Scipione l'africano)
Facist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic
Overview
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
Key Crew
Director: Carmine Gallone
Screenplay: Carmine Gallone, Camillo Mariani Dell'Aguillara, Sebastiano Luciani
Story: Carmine Gallone, Camillo Mariani Dell'Aguillara, Sebastiano Luciani
Director of Photography: Ubaldo Arata, Anchise Brizzi
Top Cast
Camillo Pilotto
Hannibal
Annibale Ninchi
Publis Cornelius Scipio
Fosco Giachetti
Captain Massinissa
Francesca Braggiotti
Queen Sophonisba
Marcello Giorda
King Syphace
Guglielmo Barnabò
Furius, fat Roman
Isa Miranda
Velia, a Roman woman
Memo Benassi
Cato
