Kif Tebbi
{{short description|1928 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Kif Tebbi
| image =File:Kiftebbi1928 spada+neri.jpg
| caption =
| director = Mario Camerini
| producer =
| writer = Luciano Zuccoli (novel)
Luciano Doria
| starring =
| music =
| cinematography = Ferdinando Martini
| editing =
| studio = ADIA
Società Italiana Cines
| distributor = Società Italiana Cines
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1928|12}}
| runtime =
| country = Italy
| language = Silent
Italian intertitles
| budget =
}}
Kif Tebbi is a 1928 Italian silent war film directed by Mario Camerini. The film portrays the Italo-Turkish War. A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire when war breaks out in 1911, but eventually decides to change sides and support Italy.Del Boca p.182
Production
File:Kiftebbi1928 set-libia.jpg.]]
The film promoted the Italian Fascist regime's imperial policies in Libya and in wider Africa. While privately funded (although the government supported its production) the film foreshadowed future collaborations between the film industry and the Italian state.Ben-Ghiat p.75
Cast
- Donatella Neri as Mne
- Carlo Benetti
- Piero Carnabuci as Mabruk El Gadi
- Nini Dinelli as Rasim Ben Abdalla
- Ugo Gracci as Taleb
- Paolo Orsini
- Alberto Pasquali as Uff. Degli Zaptie
- Enrico Scatizzi as Comandante Turchi
- Marcello Spada as Ismail
- Raimondo Van Riel
- Gino Viotti as Ajad Padre Di Ismail
- Renato Visca as Fratello Ismail
References
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Bibliography
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945. University of California Press, 2004.
- Del Boca, Angelo. Mohamed Fekini and the Fight to Free Libya. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
External links
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- {{IMDb title|0019053}}
{{Mario Camerini}}
Category:1920s war drama films
Category:Italian war drama films
Category:Italian silent feature films
Category:1920s Italian-language films
Category:Films directed by Mario Camerini
Category:Films set in the 1910s
Category:Italian black-and-white films
Category:Silent war drama films
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