Wer hat Angst vor dem Feind? Bemerkungen zur Darstellung des Ersten Weltkrieges im italienischen Film der 1930er Jahre [Who's Afraid of the Enemy? Comments on the depiction of the First World War in Italian film in the 1930s]

Abstract

The present essay deals with the representation of the First World War in Italian cinema of the 1930s. Approaching the subject from a new and different perspective, the essay aims to specifically discuss the way in which the Austro-German enemy has been depicted in Marco Elter’s film Le scarpe al sole and Oreste Biancoli’s Piccolo alpino . The essay’s purpose is to shed new light on these films, which stand exemplarily for the changing representation of the First World War in Italian films in the 1930s.

Keywords

• italian fascism
• interwar italian cinema
• italian-austrian relations
• politics
• first world war
• propaganda
• film
• films
• movies
• fascism
• benito mussolini
• oreste biancoli
• marco elter