Pietro Micca (film)

Pietro Micca
Directed byAldo Vergano
Written by
Produced byLuigi Mottura
Starring
CinematographyUgo Lombardi
Edited byGuy Simon
Music byGiorgio Federico Ghedini
Production
company
Taurinia Film
Distributed byCINF
Release date
  • January 1938 (1938-01)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Pietro Micca is a 1938 Italian historical war film directed by Aldo Vergano and starring Guido Celano, Renato Cialente and Camillo Pilotto. It was shot at the Fert Studios in Turin. The film marked the screen debut of Clara Calamai, who went on to be a leading Italian star of the next decade.[1]

The film portrays the life and death of Pietro Micca who was killed in 1706 at the Siege of Turin while fighting for the Duchy of Savoy against France in the War of the Spanish Succession.

  1. ^ Moliterno p.57-58