Bengasi is a 1942 Italian war film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Fosco Giachetti, Maria von Tasnady and Amedeo Nazzari. The film was shot at Cinecittà in Rome. The film was a propaganda work, designed to support the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. It portrays Allied atrocities in Benghazi in Italian Libya, such as the murder of a peasant by a group of drunken Australian soldiers.
Bengasi (1942)
Directed by Augusto Genina
Description by Wikipedia
Movie Info
Themes
Tags
Bengasi Italiana, Cinecittà , Maria Von Tasnady, Mussolini, Rome
Attributes
Narrative Location: Libya, set in Libya
Subject: World War II
Subject: World War II
Alternate Titles
Bengasi
FR, IT
Bengasi - Schicksal einer Stadt
DE
Bengasi anno '41
IT