''La falena'' is a 1916 silent Italian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Carmine Gallone Carmine Gallone (10 September 1885 – 11 March 1973) was an early Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer, who was also controversial for his works of pro-Fascist propaganda and historical revisionism. Considered one of Itali ...

. The film is considered to be lost, with only a fragment surviving in the film archive of the Cineteca Italiana.

Plot

Thea (Borelli) is a sculptor diagnosed with phthisis before she marries Filippo (Habay). After abandoning him, her health begins to decline. She organises a final party, inviting her estranged husband. He fails to show, as he's now married to another woman. Thea appears naked in front of her guests before she kills herself.

Cast

Lyda Borelli Lyda Cini, Countess of Monselice (née Borelli, 22 March 1884 – 2 June 1959) was an Italian actress of cinema and theatre. Her career in theatre started when she was a child, acting on stage with Paola Pezzaglia in the French drama '' I due ...

as Thea di Marlievo *

Andrea Habay Andrea Habay (1883–1941) was a French film actor. Habay appeared in more forty films during the silent era, mostly in Italy. He also directed three films during the early 1920s. He played the role of Petronius in the 1924 epic ''Quo Vadis (1924 ...

as Filippo * Francesco Cacace as Lignères * Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto as Principessa Maria * Nella Montagna as La madre di Thea * Lina Dax as Allegra *

Alfonso Cassini Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. I ...

as Il maestro di Thea

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* 1916 films 1916 drama films 1916 lost films 1910s Italian films 1910s Italian-language films Films directed by Carmine Gallone Italian black-and-white films Italian films based on plays Italian silent feature films Lost drama films Lost Italian films Silent Italian drama films Films based on works by Henry Bataille {{1910s-Italy-film-stub