The Imperial Lullaby (2020)
5.3
/10 By 3 Votes
Overview : The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless dictator Benito Mussolini, by then lord of Libya, Eritrea and Somalia; a bloody and tragic story told through the naive drawings of Pietro Dall'Igna, an Italian schoolboy born in 1925.
Release Date : March 21, 2020
Runtime : 24m
Genre : Documentary, History
Companies : CSC, Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Countries : Italy
Keywords : ethiopia, animated scene, archive footage, colonialism, essay film, woman director, italian history, 1930s, colonial war, african history, italian fascism, african colony
