Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)

Facist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic

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.

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Camillo Pilotto

Hannibal

Annibale Ninchi

Publis Cornelius Scipio

Fosco Giachetti

Captain Massinissa

F

Francesca Braggiotti

Queen Sophonisba

Marcello Giorda

King Syphace

Guglielmo Barnabò

Furius, fat Roman

Isa Miranda

Velia, a Roman woman

Memo Benassi

Cato

F

Franco Coop

Mezio, Roman soldier

C

Ciro Galvani

Quinto Fabio Massimo

Carlo Lombardi

Lucio

M

Marcello Spada

Arunte

P

Piero Carnabuci

Il Reduce della Battaglia

Carlo Ninchi

Lelius

Lamberto Picasso

Hasdrubal, advisor to Hannibal

D

Diana Lante

Moglie di Scipione

Raimondo Van Riel

Maharbale

Achille Majeroni

Principe del Senato

Carlo Tamberlani

Ambasciatore Romano

Gino Viotti

Mercante Fenicio

C

Clara Padoa

Schiava di Sofonisba

Ugo Sasso

Ufficiale

M

Mario Gallina

Ambasciatore cartaginese

Olinto Cristina

Altro ambasciatore cartaginese

Carlo Duse

Messo di Magone

F

Franco Brambilla

Ragazzo Romano

A

Antonella Steni

Una Bambina

E

Enzo Biliotti

B

Bruno Calabretta

A

Alberto Campi

G

Gustavo Conforti

G

Giorgio Covi

F

Federico De Martino

C

Cesare Gambarelli

W

Walter Lazzaro

G

Guglielmo Longo

G

Giorgio Marcello

O

Otello Polini

A

Albino Principe

G

Gennaro Sabatano

C

Carlo Simoneschi

E

Ernesto Torrini

V

Vittorio Vaser

A

Amedeo Vecci

F

Franca Vella

C

Carla Zaccaria

A

Armando Zuccarelli

R

Rosina Adrario

N

Nino Altieri

R

Ruggero Angeletti

S

Sandro Bianchi

A

Antimo Reyner

Alberto Sordi

Comparsa soldato romano (uncredited)

A

Alfredo De Antoni

Anziano Cartaginese

F

Fernando Solieri

Anziano Cartaginese

Mario Carotenuto

Extra (uncredited)

V

Vittorio Capanni

Alberto De Martino

Il figlio di Scipione (uncredited)

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