''Maddalena Ferat'' is a 1920 Italian

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...

directed by Febo Mari and

Roberto Roberti Vincenzo Leone (24 July 1879 – 10 January 1959), known professionally as Roberto Roberti, was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He made over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. He was married to the actress Bice Valeria ...

and starring

Francesca Bertini Francesca Bertini (born Elena Seracini Vitiello; 5 January 1892 – 13 October 1985) was an Italian silent film actress. She was one of the most successful silent film stars in the first quarter of the twentieth-century. Biography Born in Pra ...

.Gural & Singer p.208 It is an adaptation of

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

's 1868 novel ''

Madeleine Férat ''Madeleine Férat'' is an 1868 novel by the French writer Émile Zola. It was Zola's fourth novel, written immediately after ''Thérèse Raquin'', which had been Zola's first commercial and artistic success. ''Madeleine Ferat'' deals with a beaut ...

''.

Cast

* Giorgio Bonaiti * Achille De Riso * Giovanni Gizzi * Mario Parpagnoli *

Giuseppe Pierozzi Giuseppe Pierozzi (8 March 1883 – 22 April 1956) was an Italian stage and film actor.Goble p.349 Selected filmography * '' Maddalena Ferat'' (1920) * '' Through the Shadows'' (1923) * ''Samson'' (1923) * '' The Faces of Love'' (1924) * '' The ...

* Bianca Renieri * Antonietta Zanone

References

Bibliography

* Anna Gural & Robert Singer. ''Zola and Film: Essays in the Art of Adaptation''. McFarland, 2005.

External links

* 1920 films 1920s Italian-language films Films directed by Roberto Roberti Italian silent feature films Films based on French novels Films based on works by Émile Zola Italian black-and-white films {{Italy-silent-film-stub