The Fantastic Magnifico

Year: 2008

Director: Sam Sharpe

Writer: Sam Sharpe

Genre: Animation

Category: Short

Runtime: 12 min

Country: U.S.A.

Language: English

Color: Color

Company: View-O-Tron Films

A dark comedy about a lowly street urchin who grows up to become the greatest fighter pilot of WWI.

Synopsis: Nathan Darrow (Civil War Stories) stars as Magnifico, a young American searching for greatness against the bloody backdrop of WWI. In his quest he travels to Europe, joins the Royal Air Corps, and learns there are two things he was born to do...fly...and kill Germans. One day, separated from his squadron, his dominion over the sky is challenged by the appearance of a strange bat-winged monoplane, leading to events that will change his life forever.