Early Italian Science-Fiction film.
Don Abbondio
Ambientada en la Italia del siglo XVII, narra las desventuras de dos muchachos que intentan casarse contra la voluntad de un cacique local que hará todo lo posible para secuestrar a la chica. Adaptación de una popular novela italiana que en su época fue una de las películas más exitosas del cine mudo italiano.
il marito
Maude, engaged to a doctor, was adopted years earlier by the president of an anti-alcoholic league. A Gypsy violinist falls in love with her, who, after having kidnapped and immobilized the girl's boyfriend, takes her to a villa and, to try to make her give in to his coaxing, has some gypsies offer her champagne.
In ancient times Rome looked upon Carthage as her greatest rival, and determined to plan her downfall. Cato, a Roman Senator, appealed to the Senate to conquer Carthage, and under a pretext that she had failed to keep faith, the Romans began a new war. The Roman army embarked for Africa and landed near Carthage.
Hoping to please her, some children give their grandmother an electric lamp for her birthday, but the elderly lady does not intend to put the old oil lamp in the attic and tells the young people that the object has a huge value for her.
