Giuseppe de Liguoro

Birth : 1869-01-10, Naples, Campania, Italy

Death : 1944-03-19

History

Giuseppe de Liguoro (1869–1944) was an Italian actor and film director of the silent era. He came from an aristocratic neapolitan family. De Liguoro was a pioneering figure of early Italian cinema, making a number of historical films in early 1910s such as L'Inferno (1911) and Mary Tudor (1911). Description above from the Wikipedia article Giuseppe de Liguoro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Profile

Movies

Odette

Director

Odette

Writer

Lacrimae Rerum

Director

Silent film.

Fedora

Director

An Italian melodrama. Only the final reel survives.

Christus

Director

L'Odissea

Film adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey.'

L'Odissea

Director

Film adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey.'

Burgos

Director

The documentary was entirely filmed in the province of Burgos, containing monuments and architecture considered emblematic of Spanish heritage. Color was added to the film at a later date, by hand. Burgos is a fine example of the timeless beauty of hand-stenciled film, as well as sound actuality filmmaking by two cinematic pioneers.

Dante's Inferno

Farinata degli Uberti / Pier Delle Vigne / Il conte Ugolino

The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.

Dante's Inferno

Director

Napo Torriano

Director

Silent film.

Bruto

Director

Directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro.

Il conte Ugolino

Directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro.

Il conte Ugolino

Director

Directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro.