Sun (film)

Sun
Sun
	Dria Paola and Marcello Spada
Directed by	Alessandro Blasetti
Written by	Aldo Vergano; Alessandro Blasetti;
Starring	Marcello Spada; Vasco Creti; Dria Paola; Vittorio Vaser;
Cinematography	Giuseppe Caracciolo; Carlo Montuori; Giorgio Orsini;
Edited by	Alessandro Blasetti
Production; company	Augustus Film
Release date	16 June 1929;
Running time	76 minutes
Country	Italy
Languages	Silent; Italian intertitles;

Sun (Italian: Sole) is a 1929 Italian silent drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Marcello Spada, Vasco Creti and Dria Paola. The film was set around the planned draining of the Pontine Marshes by Benito Mussolini's Fascist government.^[1] It was shot partly on location, which added a sense of realism. Mussolini was impressed by the result and described it as "the dawn of the Fascist film".^[2]

The film was destroyed during the Second World War, and survives only in still photographs.^[3]

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Bondanella, Peter E. Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001.
Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. Re-Viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922 to 1943. Indiana University Press, 2002.

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