The Imperial Lullaby

The Imperial Lullaby

2020 · 24 min · ★ 5.3 · Documentary , History

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.

Directed by Filippo Foscarini · Written by Filippo Foscarini

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Rodolfo Graziani Self - Italian Military (voice) (archive footage)

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