Luciano Serra, Pilot
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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?
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Amedeo Nazzari
Luciano Serra
Known for
Nights of Cabiria
The Sicilian Clan
Germana Paolieri
Sandra Serra
Also in
Pia de' Tolomei
Piccola mia
Roberto Villa
Aldo Serra
Also in
Il fornaretto di Venezia
Violette nei capelli
Mario Ferrari
Il colonnello Franco Morelli
Also in
1860
Everybody's Woman
Guglielmo Sinaz
Jose Ribera
Also in
The Siege of the Alcazar
Hands Off Me!
Egisto Olivieri
Nardini, il suocero di Luciano
Known for
Miracle in Milan
Andrea Checchi
Ten. Binelli
Known for
Black Sunday
Two Women
Goffredo Alessandrini Director · Roberto Rossellini Screenplay Giorgio Simonelli Editor
First release January 2, 1938 · Produced in Ethiopia, Italy · Original title Luciano Serra, pilota
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Aquila Cinematografica
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Ethiopia · Italy
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Original title
Luciano Serra, pilota
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · January 2, 1938
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