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Arturo Ambrosio
Arturo Ambrosio (1870–1960) was an Italian film producer who was a pioneering and influential figure in the early years of Italian cinema. Biography Ambrosio was a photographer who owned a shop in Turin. In 1904, after returning from a visit to Paris with a new film camera he began making short films of a documentary nature. In 1906 he founded Ambrosio Films and began making more ambitious fiction films. In 1908 Ambrosio produced and directed ''The Last Days of Pompeii'', a major hit which helped trigger a fashion for Italian historical epics, generally set in the Classical era. Over the next decade Ambrosio oversaw a number of popular films and was able to export them to lucrative foreign markets such as Britain and America. Like other Italian filmmakers, Ambrosio struggled during the crisis that hit Italian filmmaking following the First World War and his career appeared to have been ended by the commercial failure of his 1924 epic ''Quo Vadis''. However, he returned from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 847,287 (31 January 2022) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city used to be a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. Turin is sometimes called "the cradle of Italian liberty" for having been the political and intellectual centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monna Vanna (1915 Film)
''Monna Vanna'' is a 1915 Italian silent film directed by Mario Caserini and starring Madeleine Céliat, Hamilton Revelle and François-Paul Donadio.Bernardini & Martinelli p.62 It was released in the United States by Universal Pictures in 1916. Cast * Madeleine Céliat * Hamilton Revelle * François-Paul Donadio * Luigi Chiesa * Maria Caserini * Cesare Zocchi * Umberto Scalpellini * Rita Jolivet See also * ''Monna Vanna ''Monna Vanna'' (russian: Монна Ванна) is an unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Rachmaninoff had completed Act I in short vocal score, with piano accompaniment, and then he went to ask for permiss ...'' (1922) References Bibliography * Aldo Bernardini & Vittorio Martinelli. ''Il cinema muto italiano, Volume 8, Part 2''. Nuova ERI-Edizioni RAI, 1992. External links * 1915 films Italian films 1910s Italian-language films Films directed by Mario Caserini Italian silent short films Films ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Film Producers
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1960 Deaths
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 Births
Year 187 ( CLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 940 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 187 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa. * Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest. By topic Religion * Olympianus succeeds Pertinax as bishop of Byzantium (until 198). Births * Cao Pi, Chinese emperor of the Cao Wei stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ship (1921 Film)
''The Ship'' (Italian: ''La Nave'') is a 1921 Italian silent historical drama film directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Mario Roncoroni and starring Ida Rubinstein, Alfredo Boccolini, and Ciro Galvani.Nowell-Smith p.121 It is an adaptation of the play ''La Nave'' by Gabriele D'Annunzio, father of the film's director. Cast * Ida Rubinstein as Basiliola * Alfredo Boccolini as Marco Gràtico * Ciro Galvani Ciro Galvani (1867–1956) was an Italian stage and film actor.Goble p.470 He appeared in a number of films directed by Carmine Gallone. Selected filmography * ''La storia di un peccato'' (1918) * ''Nemesis'' (1920) * '' The Ship'' (1921) * ''The ... as Sergio Gràtico * Mary Cleo Tarlarini as La diaconessa Ema * Mario Mariani as Il monaco Traba Story Basilioa is the daughter of Orso Faledro and is back in town in search of revenge for her father and for her brothers. The cause of the ruin of her relatives are the Graticis, a rival family. So she pretends to fall in l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodora (film)
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Mara West
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Cenere
''Cenere'' is a 1916 in film, 1916 silent film directed by and starring Febo Mari. It is adapted from the 1904 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Sardinian writer Grazia Deledda. It is notable as the only film performance by the Italy, Italian theater star Eleonora Duse.“Film Threat’s Top 10 One-Hit Wonders,” Film Threat, February 8, 2005. Quote: "Indeed it was, as Duse would never venture before the cameras again, leaving "Cenere" as her only film record." Plot Rosalia Derios is an unmarried woman in a small Sardinian village whose lover abandons her before the birth of their son, whom she names Anania. Realizing that she will not be able to raise the child properly, she gives full custody of Anania to her former lover. However, she entru ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Antonio (1914 Film)
''Doctor Antonio'' (Italian:''Il dottor Antonio'') is a 1914 Italian silent historical film directed by Eleuterio Rodolfi and starring Hamilton Revelle, Fernanda Negri Pouget and Alfredo Bertone. It is an adaptation of the 1855 novel '' Doctor Antonio'' by Giovanni Ruffini.Goble p.742 In the mid-nineteenth century an Italian revolutionary falls in love with a wealthy young Englishwoman. It was made by the Turin-based studio Ambrosio Film. Cast *Hamilton Revelle as Dottor Antonio * Fernanda Negri Pouget as Lucy Davenne *Alfredo Bertone as Aubrey Davenne * Armand Pouget as Sir John Davenne *Cesare Zocchi as Re di Napoli *Alberto Albertini Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albertino ... References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pancalieri
Pancalieri is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, about 30 km southwest of Turin. Pancalieri borders the following municipalities: Osasio, Virle Piemonte, Vigone, Lombriasco, Casalgrasso, Villafranca Piemonte, Faule Faule is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin and about north of Cuneo, near the Po River The Po ( , ; la, Padus or ; Ligurian language (ancient), Ancient Liguri ..., and Polonghera. Twin towns — sister cities Pancalieri is twinned with: * Ataliva, Argentina, since 2003 References Cities and towns in Piedmont {{Turin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nero (1909 Film)
''Nero, or The Fall of Rome'' ( it, Nerone, o la caduta di Roma) is a 1909 Italian short silent Epic film directed by Luigi Maggi and Arturo Ambrosio, based on the eponymous 1872 drama by Pietro Cossa. This is one of the oldest surviving Italian epic films about Ancient Rome.Review and link to watch the film: Plot One day emperor Nero leaves his palace accompanied by his wife Claudia Octavia and meets a charming patrician named Poppea. With the help of his freedman Epaphroditus he finds her at a party she is attending and brings her back to his palace. Nero presents Poppea to the people as the new empress and repudiates his wife. Octavia asks him to restitute the empire which he had received as her dowry, but the emperor harshly chases her away. Later, Nero is convinced by Poppea to have Octavia killed. One of her maidservants swears revenge and goes to Rome where she spreads the news of the assassination. The people, already tired of Nero's exactions and whims, decide to revol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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