Birth Anniversary: Augusto Genina — January 28, 1892

Augusto Genina was born in Rome on 28 January 1892. In 1942 he directed Bengasi, on the fifty-seven-day siege of the Italian garrison at Benghazi; the film took the Coppa Mussolini for best Italian film at the Venice Mostra of that year.

Dates verified on the Treccani Enciclopedia del Cinema / Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, cross-checked against the Library of Congress Name Authority File.