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This paper intends to critically reflect on the work of Austrian film director Willi Forst. Forst has been widely regarded as one of the great names in the history of German-speaking cinema, and in discussing Forst’s work, scholars have repeatedly pointed to the close connection between Forst’s films and Austria’s history and cultural tradition. In fact, Forst has been often labeled as the most Austrian film director, typically associating Forst’s work with the musical genre and the so-called Viennese Film, of whi...

The present paper aims to investigate the ways in which the First World War was portrayed on the Italian screens during the Fascist regime. For this purpose, the paper will discuss a number of films about the war made in Italy between the 1920s and 1930s, ranging from Mario Volpe’s Il grido dell’aquila, produced in 1923 on the occasion of the first anniversary of Fascism’s seizure of power, in October 1922, to Marco Elter’s Le scarpe al sole, which is commonly regarded as one of the best Italian films on the Great...