Desc: Scipione detto anche l'africano: Directed by Luigi Magni. With Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Mastroianni. Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.