Giovanni Pastrone
Nascimento : 1883-09-13, Montechiaro d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy
Morte : 1959-06-27
História
Giovanni Pastrone, também conhecido por Piero Fosco (Montechiaro d'Asti, 13 de setembro de 1883 - Turim, 27 de junho de 1959), foi um cineasta, roteirista e ator italiano da época do cinema mudo, um dos pioneiros do cinema da Itália.
Influenciou vários importantes diretores do cinema internacional, como D. W. Griffith e seus O Nascimento de uma Nação (1915), e Intolerancia (1916).
Dirigiu, entre outros, o clássico Cabiria, de 1914, síntese dos superespetáculos italianos e modelo para a indústria cinematográfica da década de 1920. Nesse filme, Pastrone usou cenários gigantescos, empregou pela primeira vez a técnica do travelling, fazendo a câmara deslocar-se sobre um carro, e usou iluminação artificial, fato notável para a época.[2] Deste filme derivou-se o nome da famosa personagem de Giulietta Masina em Noites de Cabiria, de Fellini.
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Based on Henrik Ibsen's play from 1890-
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Claudio is married to Cesarina, a frivolous and unfaithful woman. After the death of their only son their marriage is cold. While his wife lives her free life, Claudio is dedicated to the development of sophisticated weapons, elaborating the project of a new cannon; but smitten by the virtuous Jew Rebecca he can not surrender to his feelings because his religion prevents him from getting a divorce.
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A three-part love story: Alborada, Cénit y Ocaso (Sunrise, Noon and Sunset). A dying prince (Agüeros) lives a stormy love affair with a "femme fatale" (Padilla) who doesn't care for his feelings.
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"The War and the Dream of Momi" was a patriotic war film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Segundo de Chomón was responsible for the animation effects.
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"The War and the Dream of Momi" was a patriotic war film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Segundo de Chomón was responsible for the animation effects.
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A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.
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A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.
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A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.
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"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent idiosyncrasy that any silent diva would kill to star in… In "Tigre Reale", Frau Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future. She was married to a revolutionary and the matrimony ended in tragedy. She likes to flirt with men but due to her traumatic sentimental past, she doesn't allow herself attachments. That is until she meets a young diplomat who will help her to make up her mind and exorcize her old sentimental traumas.
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It's another Pastrone collaboration with silent-cinema hottie Pina Menichelli, who ruins a painter's life just for the sheer fun of it.
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It's another Pastrone collaboration with silent-cinema hottie Pina Menichelli, who ruins a painter's life just for the sheer fun of it.
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A young girl, pursued by a band of conspirators, hides in a movie theatre where she watches the film Cabiria. She determines to seek the aid of that film's strongman, Maciste. When she locates him, he helps her overcome her enemies, but not without many thrilling and dangerous adventures.
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Três séculos antes de Cristo, a jovem Cabiria foi sequestrada por piratas durante a erupção do vulcão Etna. Ela foi vendida como escrava em Cartago e dada como sacrificio para o Deus Moloch. Mas Cabiria foi resgatada por um nobre romano que foge de Cartago. Dez anos depois, durante as guerras punicas ele decide retornar...
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Três séculos antes de Cristo, a jovem Cabiria foi sequestrada por piratas durante a erupção do vulcão Etna. Ela foi vendida como escrava em Cartago e dada como sacrificio para o Deus Moloch. Mas Cabiria foi resgatada por um nobre romano que foge de Cartago. Dez anos depois, durante as guerras punicas ele decide retornar...
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Três séculos antes de Cristo, a jovem Cabiria foi sequestrada por piratas durante a erupção do vulcão Etna. Ela foi vendida como escrava em Cartago e dada como sacrificio para o Deus Moloch. Mas Cabiria foi resgatada por um nobre romano que foge de Cartago. Dez anos depois, durante as guerras punicas ele decide retornar...
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A bourgeois gentleman gets excited reading about cops and robbers on the newspaper. His wife, bored by his comments, falls asleep and right after, with the help of the warmth of the living room, he falls asleep too. Then, the shadow of an escaping robber comes to life from the newspaper. Suddenly the dreamer wakes up wearing the cop uniform and starts chasing him.
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A cinema becomes the site of sexual intrigue when a man looking for romance in the dark follows a woman into the movies and finds himself molesting her husband instead.
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Menelaus is the king of Sparta and temporarily departs from his residence, leaving Helen, the queen of Sparta, without him. When Paris of Troy, ambassador and son of the king, arrives in Sparta, he kidnaps Helen and brings her to Troy where the two fall in love. The Greeks attempt to siege the city walls of Troy, but fail. The Greeks then place a huge wooden Trojan horse with Greek warriors hidden inside under the walls of Troy, pretending to be dedicated to the gods and ending the war. Falling for the trap, the Trojans break down the city walls to bring the wooden horse inside.
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Menelaus is the king of Sparta and temporarily departs from his residence, leaving Helen, the queen of Sparta, without him. When Paris of Troy, ambassador and son of the king, arrives in Sparta, he kidnaps Helen and brings her to Troy where the two fall in love. The Greeks attempt to siege the city walls of Troy, but fail. The Greeks then place a huge wooden Trojan horse with Greek warriors hidden inside under the walls of Troy, pretending to be dedicated to the gods and ending the war. Falling for the trap, the Trojans break down the city walls to bring the wooden horse inside.
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Early Shakespeare's adaptation.
Giulio Cesare
A early adaption of the life of Julius Caesar.
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A early adaption of the life of Julius Caesar.
