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Luciano Serra, pilota ()


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Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a... See more »

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Luciano Serra
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Sandra Serra
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Aldo Serra
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Il colonnello Franco Morelli
Guglielmo Sinaz ...
Jose Ribera
Egisto Olivieri ...
Nardini, il suocero di Luciano
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Ten. Binelli
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Oscar Andriani ...
Il cappellano militare
Olivia Fried ...
Dorothy Thompson
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Un socio del circolo
Beatrice Mancini ...
La fidanzata di Aldo (as Bice Mancinotti)
Gino Mori ...
Aldo Serra da bambino
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(uncredited)
Silvio Bagolini ...
Un socio del circolo (uncredited)
Gemma Bolognesi ...
(uncredited)
Franco Caruso ...
Un pilota (uncredited)
Felice Minotti ...
Andrea (uncredited)
Nico Pepe ...
Il conte (uncredited)
Felice Romano ...
Mario, il meccanico (uncredited)

Directed by

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Goffredo Alessandrini

Written by

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Goffredo Alessandrini ... (screenplay)
 
Goffredo Alessandrini ... (story)
 
Francesco Masoero ... (story)
 
Fulvio Palmieri ... (adaptation)
 
Ivo Perilli ... (adaptation)
 
Roberto Rossellini ... (screenplay)
 
Cesare Giulio Viola ... (dialogue)

Produced by

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Angelo Monti ... producer

Music by

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Giulio Cesare Sonzogno

Cinematography by

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Ubaldo Arata

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Giorgio Simonelli ... (as Giorgio C. Simonelli)

Production Design by

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Gastone Medin

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Luigi Giacosi ... production manager
Franco Riganti ... unit manager

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Roberto Rossellini ... assistant director
Umberto Scarpelli ... assistant director

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Italo Tomassi ... painter (uncredited)

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Bruno Brunacci ... sound

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Mario Craveri ... camera operator
Renato Del Frate ... assistant camera
Crescenzo Gentili ... cinematographer: aerial sequences
Piero Pupilli ... camera operator: second unit
Aldo Tonti ... assistant camera
Alberto Graziosi ... camera operator: aerial sequences (uncredited)

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Edoardo De Risi ... conductor

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Giuseppe Bordini ... military advisor (as Ten. Col. G. Bordini)
Vittorio Mussolini ... supervising director
Enrico Pizzi ... military advisor (as col. Enrico Pizzi)
Crew believed to be complete

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Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a double dealing agent for a flight from Rio to Rome, but his plane crashes in the Atlantic. For the world Luciano Serra is missing, but he has entered the Italian army under a new name to fight in Ethiopia. The train in which his unit travels is attacked by Ethiopian soldiers, his son flying a reconasaince mission is shot down and wounded by the same attacking enemies. Will Luciano be able to fly the plane back, to get close air support for the outnumbered Italian troups ? Written by Stephan Eichenberg

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Also Known As
  • Luciano Serra, Pilot (World-wide, English title)
  • Luciano Serra, pilote (France)
  • Zwischen Leben und Tod (Germany)
  • De una misma sangre (Spain)
  • Luciano Serra, Piloto (Brazil)
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  • 102 min
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Trivia Italian censorship visa #30284 delivered on 03 September 1938. See more »

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