Caesar Film was an Italian

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and

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company founded in 1913. The studio's owner Giuseppe Barattolo built it into one of the more successful

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companies of the 1910s, thanks partly to signing up the

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to make a series of films.Moliterno p.23 Following the crisis in Italian production that followed the

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, Barattolo took Caesar in as a member of the giant consortium

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which pooled the resources of several major film producers. However the collapse of this company in 1925 left Caesar struggling. Following a boom in production following the arrival of

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in 1930, Barattolo relaunched Caesar and made several films without restoring it to its former strength. Barattolo subsequently became involved with

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, which was financially backed by Italy's

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government.

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Bibliography

* Moliterno, Gino. ''Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. Film production companies of Italy Film distributors of Italy Mass media companies established in 1913 {{IT-film-company-stub