Old Guard 1934
Vecchia guardia
Drama
There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
Cast
G
Gianfranco Giachetti
Dott. Claudio Cardini
F
Franco Brambilla
Mario
M
Maria Puccini
La moglie
B
Barbara Monis
La maestra
G
Graziella Antonelli
La sorella della maestra
U
Umberto Sacripante
Il pazzo Tralicò
G
Graziela Betti
La ragazza del convento
C
Cesare Zoppetti
L'assessore
A
Aristide Garbini
L'uscere
I
Italo Tancredi
L'infermiere
Crew
- Director
- Alessandro Blasetti
- Cinematography
- Otello Martelli
- Editing
- Alessandro Blasetti, Ignazio Ferronetti
- Composer
- Umberto Mancini
- Production Design
- Leo Bomba
Details
- Release date
- Jun 1, 1934
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Status
- Released
- Studios
- Fauno Film
- Country
- Italy
- Language
- Italian
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