Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

• Annibale Ninchi: Scipio
• Camillo Pilotto: Hannibal
• Fosco Giachetti: Masinissa
• Francesca Braggiotti: Sophonisbe
• Memo Benassi: Cato
• Marcello Giordano: King Syphasos
• Guglielmo Barnabò: Furius
• Isa Miranda: Velia
• Franco Coop: Mezius

Carthage Case ( Scipione l' Africano original title ) is a 1937 epic film produced in Fascist Italy, which has the fight Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus against Hannibal in the Second Punic War to the topic. The film was conceived as a propaganda film that would put the colonial aspirations of Benito Mussolini in Africa to the victories of the Roman Republic with respect. The film was made with great effort and massive government support as the first film in Cinecittà, but was unsuccessful at the box office. This was due to the perceived as boring, except for the spectacularly staged battle of Zama primarily on theatrical and rhetorical scenes based on staging and unconvincing protagonist Annibale Ninchi, Mussolini called a " measly Visage ".

Scipione l' Africano was the only epic film of the fascist regime with ancient Roman theme. The film was shown in the German Empire in the late summer of 1938 under the title " Carthage case " to.

Awards

• Coppa Mussolini, 1937