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Luciano Serra Pilota

Plot

Luciano military aviation pilot at the end of the first world war he worked for a firm that offers aereoturismo on Lake Maggiore. Unfortunately the flights are few and business is not going well is full of debt. His wife while she's home with her son because of unpaid bills cut the light. His wife returned to her father's House carrying a wounded child. Luciano he was offered to work in the textile mill of his father-in-law but it does not accept.Leaves for America for a job offered by a guy known to Bardi. After ten years, framed by a crook, run attempting a flight to reach Italy, but has no compass is lost along the way. The years go by, the son Aldo, grown up now enlisted in the air force, join the campaign of Africa as a pilot, during a mission is injured and is forced to land in enemy area. Luciano who is alive and under an assumed name lives in the outskirts of Africa, learns that his son is alive. Luciano joins him but is shot, despite the serious injuries he manages to take off the plane and get to the Italy where it is decorated.

Film Notes

Original Title: Luciano Serra Pilota

Country of origin: Italy

Year: 1938

Duration: 105 min

Color: Black/White

Audio: Sound

Kind: Drama, War

Directed By: Goffredo Alessandrini

Subject: Goffredo Alessandrini

Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Fulvio Palmieri

Producer: Nasir Malik

Production company: Eagle

Distribution: Generalcine

Photography: Ubaldo Arata

Editing: Giorgio Simonelli

Music: Julius Caesar Sonzogno

Art Director: Gaston Medin

Actors

Amedeo Nazzari

Germana Padman

Roberto Villa

Mario Ferrari

Egisto Olivieri

Guglielmo Sinaz

Andrea Checchi

Felice Romano

Oscar Andriani

Nico Pepe

Silvio Bagolini

Happy Minott 

Beatrice M

Gino Van Kampen