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Harlem (1943)

ALL 04/21/1943 (it) Drama 113 Min
  • Release
    04/21/1943
  • Production
    Cines
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Harlem
  • Original language
    it
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.

  1. Carmine Gallone

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Jacopo Comin

    Producer



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  1. Massimo Girotti

    Tommaso Rossi

  2. Amedeo Nazzari

    Amedeo Rossi

  3. Vivi Gioi

    Muriel

  4. Elisa Cegani

    Gangster woman

  5. Osvaldo Valenti

    Chris Sherman

  6. Erminio Spalla

    Franckie Battaglia, the coach

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 6 , Crews : 14

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Harlem (1943) 113 Min

ALL 04/21/1943 (it)
Drama
  • Release 04/21/1943
  • Production
    Cines
  • Original title Harlem
  • it
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.

  1. Carmine Gallone

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Renzo Lucidi, Maria Rosada

    Editor

  4. Jacopo Comin

    Producer



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