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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

Film·1937

by Carmine Gallone

Figures 3

Released 1937

Historical Accuracy Spectrum

FictionalHistorical

Historical

3 figures

Fictional / Legendary

0 figures

Classification

High Historical Fidelity

Who's in This?

Heroic (1)

Scipio Africanus

A messianic populist leader framed as a proto-Fascist savior of the nation.

Villainous (2)

Hannibal Barca

A brutish and visually scarred representation of Oriental decadence and chaos.

Sophonisba

A vampish seductress whose sexuality is coded as a threat to masculine Roman order.

External References

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