White Squadron

White Squadron (1936)

Lo squadrone bianco

Lieutenant Mario Ludovici, an army officer, gets himself transferred to a Libyan post when his romance with society girl Cristiana goes on the rocks. Ludovici is looked upon as a weakling by Captain Santelia, the hard-boiled commander of the troops, but after a bitter campaign against a rebel tribe Ludovici proves his true worth and returns as commander when Santelia is mortally wounded. Cristiana arrives and tries to entice him to return to Rome, but he decides to stay in Africa with the army.

Date of release
1936-01-02
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
War, Drama
Director
Augusto Genina

Casting

Interesting facts

Lo squadrone bianco is a 1936 Italian film directed by Augusto Genina. The plot features a cavalry lieutenant, unlucky in love, who redeems himself by battling the "rebels" of Tripolitania. The film won the Mussolini Cup at the Venice Film Festival, during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Production

The film is based on the novel L'Escadron blanc by French writer Joseph Peyré, who had a hand in the adaptation of the script to the screen. It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome.

Genina's noted shots of the Tripolitanian desert were all done on location. For its use of foreign technologies, it has been called the "first sample of the Americanised technical powers of Italy's huge new cinema city."

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