Scipio the African

Scipio the African (Scipione detto anche l'Africano)
Film poster
Directed by	Luigi Magni
Written by	Luigi Magni
Produced by	Ultra Film, Cinerama
Starring	Marcello Mastroianni
Cinematography	Arturo Zavattini
Edited by	Ruggero Mastroianni Amedeo Salfa
Music by	Severino Gazzelloni
Release date	1971 (1971)
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Scipio the African (Italian: Scipione detto anche l'Africano) is a 1971 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Magni.

Plot

During the Second Punic War, the commander Scipio Africanus is in a crisis because the Roman army can not defeat the many Carthaginian legions of Hannibal Barca. Teaming with his brother Scipio Asiaticus, Africanus manages to destroy the troops of Hannibal at Zama and to win the war. When he returns triumphant to Rome, he realizes that he has been manipulated like a puppet by the consul Marcus Porcius Cato, called "the Censor". Scipio, disgusted by the poor Roman politics, withdraws from his rank of general, while Cato plans to destroy with a third war the cursed city of Carthage.

Cast

• Marcello Mastroianni - Scipione l'Africano
• Silvana Mangano - Emilia
• Vittorio Gassman - Catone il Censore
• Ruggero Mastroianni - Scipione l'Asiatico
• Turi Ferro - Giove Capitolino
• Woody Strode - Massinissa
• Fosco Giachetti
• Ben Ekland
• Enzo Fiermonte
• Philippe Hersent
• Christian Aligny
• Adolfo Lastretti
• Gudrun Mardon Khies
• Gianni Solaro

External links

• Scipio the African at IMDb