

By means of a chronological arrangement of historical video material from the Istituto Luce archives, it tells the story of Fascist Italy's ambitions in Africa and the role they played in shaping fascist ideology and the stance of the fascist regime in the Western world at the height of the age of colonialism and aggressive European expansionism.

Riccardo Mei

Giovanni Pascoli

Paul von Hindenburg

Rodolfo Graziani

Benito Mussolini

Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

Adolf Hitler

Pierre Laval

Emilio De Bono

Giuseppe Bottai

Galeazzo Ciano

Pietro Badoglio

Achille Starace

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

Winston Churchill