Jun 4, 2023
Mario Ferrari and Carlo Ninchi ( as Major Castagna) in the war film Giarabub (1942) directed by Goffredo Alessandrini. The story is about the nine months heroic resistance of an Italian military oasis-post in the Lybian desert, besieged by the enemy British troops, vastly superior in number. Though an obvious propaganda movie for its story, the film reveals as usual Alessandrini's artistic merits. He focuses on the sentiments of the besieged men and the relation with their paternal major, conscious of a hopeless situation and conveys a sense of reality thanks also to the use of the Istituto Luce footage for the battle scene.
