Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.

Vinicio Marchioni

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Martina Querini

(Clara Calamai)

Eleonora Belcamino

(Maria Denis)

Eleonora Mancini

(Elsa De Giorgi)

Silvia Alù

(Carla Del Poggio)

Marta Manduca

(Doris Duranti)

Gloria Radulescu

(Luisa Ferida)

Eliana De Marinis

(Isa Miranda)

Marta Jacquier

(Alida Valli)

Gian Piero Brunetta

(Self - Film Historian)

Cristina Comencini

(Self - Filmmaker)

Mick La Salle

(Self - Film Critic)

Franco Mariotti

(Self - Actor)

Giuliano Montaldo

(Self - Filmmaker)

Carlo Vanzina

(Self - Filmmaker)

Enrico Vanzina

(Self - Filmmaker)

Enrico Lucherini

(Self - Press Agent)

Alessandro Roja

(Vittorio Mussolini (voice))

Benito Mussolini

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Vittorio Mussolini

(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))

Luigi Freddi

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Italo Balbo

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

William Powell

(Self - Actor (archive footage))

Douglas Fairbanks

(Self - Actor (archive footage))

Mary Pickford

(Self - Actress (archive footage))

Mahatma Gandhi

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Amelia Earhart

(Self - Aviator (archive footage))

Leopold Stokowski

(Self - Musician (archive footage))

Charlie Chaplin

(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))

Doris Duranti

(Self - Actress (archive footage))

Clara Calamai

(Self - Actress (archive footage))

Alida Valli

(Self - Actress (archive footage))

Maria Denis

(Self - Actress (archive footage))

Carla Del Poggio

(Self - Actress (archive footage))

Carlo Lizzani

(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))

Hal Roach

(Self - Producer (archive footage))

Adolf Hitler

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Joseph I. Breen

(Self - Film Censor (archive footage))

Pope Pius XI

(Self (archive footage))

Joseph Goebbels

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Luisa Ferida

(Self - Actress (archive footage))