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'''''Scipio the African''''' ({{lang-it|Scipione detto anche l'Africano}}) is a 1971 Italian [[comedy film]] directed by [[Luigi Magni]].<ref name="NY Times.com">{{cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/142445/Scipio-the-African/details |title=NY Times: Scipio the African |accessdate= |
'''''Scipio the African''''' ({{lang-it|Scipione detto anche l'Africano}}) is a 1971 Italian [[comedy film]] directed by [[Luigi Magni]].<ref name="NY Times.com">{{cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/142445/Scipio-the-African/details |title=NY Times: Scipio the African |accessdate=24 March 2009|work=NY Times.com}}</ref> |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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| Directed by | Luigi Magni |
| Written by | Luigi Magni |
| Produced by | Ultra Film, Cinerama |
| Starring | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Cinematography | Arturo Zavattini |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni Amedeo Salfa |
| Music by | Severino Gazzelloni |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Scipio the African (Italian: Scipione detto anche l'Africano) is a 1971 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Magni.[1]
During the Second Punic War, the commander Scipio Africanus is in a crisis because the Roman army can not defeat the many Carthaginian legions of Hannibal Barca. Teaming with his brother Scipio Asiaticus, Africanus manages to destroy the troops of Hannibal at Zama and to win the war. When he returns triumphant to Rome, he realizes that he has been manipulated like a puppet by the consul Marcus Porcius Cato, called "the Censor". Scipio, disgusted by the poor Roman politics, withdraws from his rank of general, while Cato plans to destroy with a third war the cursed city of Carthage.
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