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Also known as Sole

Sun is a 1929 Italian silent drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Marcello Spada, Vasco Creti and Dria Paola. The film was set around the planned draining of the Pontine Marshes by Benito Mussolini's Fascist government. It was shot partly on location, which added a sense of realism. Mussolini was impressed by the result and described it as "the dawn of the Fascist film".

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Sun (Italian: Sole) is a 1929 Italian silent drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Marcello Spada, Vasco Creti and Dria Paola. The film was set around the planned draining of the Pontine Marshes by Benito Mussolini's Fascist government. It was shot partly on location, which added a sense of realism. Mussolini was impressed by the result and described it as "the dawn of the Fascist film".

The film was destroyed during the Second World War, and survives only in still photographs.

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Marcello Spada as Ing. Rinaldi

Vasco Creti as Marco

Dria Paola as Giovanna

Vittorio Vaser as Silvestro

Lia Bosco as Barbara

Anna Vinci

Rolando Costantino

Rinaldo Rinaldi

Arcangelo Aversa

Arnaldo Baldaccini

Sante Bonaldo

Vittorio Gonzi

Igino Nunzio

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Also known as Sole

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“Sun has never deprived anyone of its light and energy irrespective of their caste and religion. Despite this, if it is being linked to communalism then I request such people to stay in their rooms during the day without sunlight.”
— Yogi Adityanath. On religious groups claiming that the Yoga practice Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) would cause religious disharmony or be an infidel practice incompatible with Islam or Christianity, as quoted in "People opposed to 'Surya Namaskar' should lock themselves in 'dark room': Yogi Adityanath", Zee News (9 June 2015)
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
— Georg Fabricius, in praise of Georg Agricola in De Metallicis Rebus (1566); as translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover in the introduction to their 1912 translation of Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556)
“Thou shall come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.”
— John Lyly, Euphues. Howell, Instructions for Ferreine Travell (1642), Arber's reprint, 1869
“There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
— Jonas Salk, in response to the question regarding his Polio vaccine, "Who owns the patent on this vaccine?" by Edward R. Murrow, in a CBS Television interview, on See It Now (12 April 1955); quoted in Jon Cohen, Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (2001)
“Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.”
— William Wordsworth, "On Revisiting the Banks of Wye" (1798)
“The sun never leaves my heart, which surpasses a garden.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection III, ETCSL, 3rd millennium BCE

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