Other titles:DER MARSCH DER HELDEN [Alternative Title]
THE WAY OF THE HEROES [Translation]
Summary: A documentary account of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, designed to illustrate the scope of the achievement and the degree of planning and organisation behind it.
Description: The film is divided into sequences each accompanied only by music or effects but preceded by an introduction spoken in Italian with translation into French and German titles. The sequences show: 1. Supply industry (food, clothing, footwear). 2. Aircraft and motor transport factories. 3. Shipping: loading freighters, a hospital ship. 4. The troops embark and depart. 5. Disembarkation and unloading at Massawa and Mogadishu. 6. Preparations for supply movement: railway laying, lorry workshops, transporting river-boats inland. 7. Transport problems: traversing rough country; road, bridge and telegraph construction; water for troops and natives. 8. Air-dropping supplies (including live sheep) to forward units. 9. Mail from home. 10. The Media: cameramen in action (aircraft, front line), mobile unit shows newsreel. 11. Medical facilities for troops and natives. 12. The actual fighting, culminating in the entry into Addis Ababa and Mussolini's reading to Roman crowd of Badoglio's victory telegram. 13. Settlers: the 'new Pax Romana' in the new Empire.
Alternative Title:DER MARSCH DER HELDEN [Alternative Title]
THE WAY OF THE HEROES [Translation]
