# Cardinal Messias

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{{Infobox film
| name = Cardinal Messias
| image = Cardinal Messias.jpg
| caption =
| director = [Goffredo Alessandrini](/source/Goffredo_Alessandrini)
| producer = [Alessandro F. Gagna](/source/Alessandro_F._Gagna)
| writer =  {{ubl|[Luigi Bernardi](/source/Luigi_Bernardi)|[Vittorio Cottafavi](/source/Vittorio_Cottafavi)|[Cesare Ludovici](/source/Cesare_Ludovici)|[Domenico Meccoli](/source/Domenico_Meccoli)|[Callisto V. Vanzin](/source/Callisto_V._Vanzin)|Goffredo Alessandrini}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|[Camillo Pilotto](/source/Camillo_Pilotto)|[Enrico Glori](/source/Enrico_Glori)|[Mario Ferrari](/source/Mario_Ferrari)|[Amedeo Trilli](/source/Amedeo_Trilli)}}
| music = {{ubli|[Mario Gaudiosi](/source/Mario_Gaudiosi)|[Licinio Refice](/source/Licinio_Refice) }}
| cinematography = {{ubli|[Renato Del Frate](/source/Renato_Del_Frate)|[Aldo Tonti](/source/Aldo_Tonti)}}
| editing = [Giorgio Simonelli](/source/Giorgio_Simonelli) 
| studio =   Romana Editrice Film 
| distributor = [Generalcine](/source/Generalcine) 
| released = {{Film date|1939|08|31|df=yes}}
| runtime = 96 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = [Italian](/source/Italian_language) 
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Cardinal Messias''''' ({{langx|it|Abuna Messias}}) is a 1939 Italian [historical](/source/historical_film) [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by [Goffredo Alessandrini](/source/Goffredo_Alessandrini) and starring [Camillo Pilotto](/source/Camillo_Pilotto), [Enrico Glori](/source/Enrico_Glori) and [Mario Ferrari](/source/Mario_Ferrari).<ref>Moliterno p.313</ref> The film was awarded the [Mussolini Cup](/source/Mussolini_Cup) at the [1939 Venice film festival](/source/7th_Venice_International_Film_Festival). It portrays the life of [Guglielmo Massaia](/source/Guglielmo_Massaia), a nineteenth-century Italian known for his missionary work in the [Ethiopian Empire](/source/Ethiopian_Empire).

==Cast==
* [Camillo Pilotto](/source/Camillo_Pilotto) as il cardinale Guglielmo Massaia, detto Abuna Messias
*[Enrico Glori](/source/Enrico_Glori) as il re Menelik
*[Mario Ferrari](/source/Mario_Ferrari) as Abuna Atanasio
*[Amedeo Trilli](/source/Amedeo_Trilli) as Ghebrà Selassié, il consigliere di Alem
*Berché Zaitù Taclè as la principessa Alem
*Ippolito Silvestri as il re Johannes
*[Francesco Sala](/source/Franz_Sala) as il marchese Antinori
*Roberto Pasetti as padre Leone
*Abd-el-Uad as il capo indigeno Abu Beker
*[Oscar Andriani](/source/Oscar_Andriani) as padre Reginaldo Giuliani
*[Corrado Racca](/source/Corrado_Racca) as Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. 
 
== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0031017}}

{{Goffredo Alessandrini}}

Category:1939 films
Category:Italian historical drama films
Category:1930s historical drama films
Category:1939 Italian-language films
Category:Films directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
Category:Films set in the 19th century
Category:Films set in Ethiopia
Category:Italian black-and-white films
Category:1939 drama films
Category:1939 Italian films
Category:Italian-language historical drama films

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