Il grande appello
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Giovanni Bertani
Enrico
Miller
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An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.
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1936-01-02
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