la presidentessa della lega
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.
Madame Burniquel
I raggi “Z” has been irresistibly charming in every stage of its gradual rediscovery. A 15-minute fragment with lovely scenes of a snowy cityscape of Turin surfaced in the early 1990 at the CNC in Paris, and was then identified as Oca alla Colbert (Eleuterio Rodolfi, 1913), because of the seamstresses masquerading as geese. After additional discoveries we could screen 30 minutes of the same French version at the Cinema Ritrovato 2009, in the section dedicated to Gigetta and Rodolfi. The storyline gave away the correct identification of I raggi “Z”, a 1917 Ambrosio production, whose director remains unknown. But would any other Italian director than Rodolfi be able to create a comedy of such elegant, warm-hearted humour and enticing brio, and set the stage so well for Gigetta’s wonderful acting? (Mariann Lewinsky)
Em 79 A.D., o respeitável pompeiano Glaucus tem um ato de generosidade ao comprar Nídia, uma escrava cega que é maltratada por sua dona. Nídia apaixona-se pelo novo mestre, mas ele só tem olhos para Jone. Esta, por sua vez, é cobiçada por Arbace, sacerdote egípcio de Ísis. Quando Nídia implora o auxílio de Isis para conquistar o coração de Glaucus, Arbace dá a ela uma poção de amor que afeta a mente, mas não o coração de Glaucus.
