Kif Tebbi

1928 film

Kif Tebbi

Directed by	Mario Camerini
Written by	Luciano Zuccoli (novel) Luciano Doria
Cinematography	Ferdinando Martini
Production companies	ADIA Società Italiana Cines
Distributed by	Società Italiana Cines
Release date	December 1928 (1928-12)
Country	Italy
Languages	Silent Italian intertitles

Kif Tebbi is a 1928 Italian silent war film directed by Mario Camerini. The film portrays the Italo-Turkish War. A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire when war breaks out in 1911, but eventually decides to change sides and support Italy.^[1]

Production

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Camerini (right) shooting the film on location in the Libyan Desert.

The film promoted the Italian Fascist regime's imperial policies in Libya and in wider Africa. While privately funded (although the government supported its production) the film foreshadowed future collaborations between the film industry and the Italian state.^[2]

Cast

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Donatella Neri as Mne
Carlo Benetti
Piero Carnabuci as Mabruk El Gadi
Nini Dinelli as Rasim Ben Abdalla
Ugo Gracci as Taleb
Paolo Orsini
Alberto Pasquali as Uff. Degli Zaptie
Enrico Scatizzi as Comandante Turchi
Marcello Spada as Ismail
Raimondo Van Riel
Gino Viotti as Ajad Padre Di Ismail
Renato Visca as Fratello Ismail

References

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^ Del Boca p.182
^ Ben-Ghiat p.75

Bibliography

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Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945. University of California Press, 2004.
Del Boca, Angelo. Mohamed Fekini and the Fight to Free Libya. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.