Lux Film was an Italian film distribution (and later production) company founded by Riccardo Gualino in 1934. Gualino was an anti-fascist businessman who had clashed with the regime of Mussolini in 1931 and had been forced into internal exile on the island of Lipari. Founded in 1934, the Turin based company specialised in distributing non-Italian films during its first few years. Relocating in Rome in 1940, Lux began making its own films at around this time, with the aim of its output being "low risk and low budget by packaging high-quality art films with cultural content". Unlike the Studio system current in Hollywood at the time, the company did not have its own studios, but financed, distributed, and exhibited projects which others brought to it with 'fixed-price contracts' where co-pro