Mario Caserini

Nascimento : 1874-11-17, Roma, Lazio, Italia

Morte : 1920-11-17

História

Italian filmmaker, actor, screenwriter. Married to actress Maria Caserini.

Filmes

Papà Lebonnard
Signora Lebonnard
Resurrezione
Director
Una notte a Calcutta
Director
Madame Guillotine
Director
“Madame Tallien” (1916) depicts the libertine life and loves of the eponymous decadent aristocrat, an important activist who was ahead of her time in deciding to make both love and war before, during and after the French Revolution . She even caused Robespierre to lose his head (literally) because of her.
Monna Vanna
Director
The Gorgona
Director
Pisa, 11th century. Spina, a young priestess daughter of Peter, is devoted to keeping a flame burning that illuminates the way back for those returning from the Crusade. But the Florentine knight Lamberto falls in love with her and the two young men fail in the vow of chastity that Spina committed. The shame for having betrayed the promise of purity made pushes Spina to suicide and Lamberto kills himself with her.
Nero and Agrippina
Director
Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.
Love Everlasting
Director
Grand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the Chief of the General Staff. After a spy named Moise Sthar steals military documents, Julius is accused of betrayal. He kills himself while Elsa is forced to leave. Homeless, she begins wandering the streets until, on the Riviera, she starts her performing career under the pseudonym of Diana Cadouleur and becomes a successful actress and singer. One day, in a small church, she meets an elegant young man and she falls in love with him. But during a tour on the Lucarno Lake she runs into Sthar who, rejected by Elena, spreads rumors about Prince Massimiliano’s behavior.
Os Últimos dias de Pompeia
Writer
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.
Os Últimos dias de Pompeia
Director
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.
Victory or Death
Director
Italian silent film Victory or Death, directed by Caserini. An early crime thriller, the plot revolves around the Countess Alberti -- played by Berta Nelson -- who spends the film in hot pursuit of a spy who stole her father’s secret documents.
Dante e Beatrice
Director
Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection.
Parsifal
Director
A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.
A Sicilian Heroine
Director
This story first takes you to Misslimeri, a little Sicilian village, and into the home of Don Ruggero, a wealthy landowner. Don Ruggero is an iron-hearted man and strongly prejudiced against the lower classes. His son, Corrado, a young fellow, loves Rosalia, a shepherdess, but Don Ruggero has always refused to allow their marriage and to recognize little Vincenzino, their child, as his grandchild. Finally to destroy all Corrado's hopes, he discharges poor Rosalia from his farm, where she had been employed for many years. Even the sight of her departure with Vincenzino in her arms does not soften him. Rosalia is the very ideal of the Sicilian beauty, and Capt. Altieri, an officer in the service of the Dominators, the Bourbons, admires her immensely, but all his approaches are strongly repulsed by her. Don Ruggero and his son have for a long time conspired to free their motherland from the hands of the Bourbons, and when they receive news of the arrival of Garibaldi.
Nelly, the Tamer
Director
A melodrama about a female lion tamer who has an extramarital relationship with a distinguished gentleman, and then moves in with him. When she later comes to regret her actions, her husband has already died of sorrow.
Mam'selle Nitouche
Director
1912 film directed by Mario Caserini.
La ribalta
A woman and a mistress fight.
La ribalta
Director
A woman and a mistress fight.
Gabriella di Beaulieu
Director
The Count of Beaulieu wants to give his daughter Gabriella to the Viscount of Armagnac as a wife.
Amleto
Director
A selection of Hamlet’s most famous scenes are reproduced in this Italian production from 1910.
Anita Garibaldi
Director
L'amorino
Director
A father tries to arrange a marriage to a wealthy man for his daughter, but she don't like him. And in anger she accidentally makes a young officer see stars and one can sparkles in their eyes.
Macbeth
Director
The play opens with the scene on the wild heath where the three witches appear to Macbeth and Banquo, as they are returning from their victorious battle with the rebels. They predict the kingship of Macbeth with the words, "All Hail, King, that shall be hereafter."
Otello
Director
An Italian movie about Othello.
Otello
An Italian movie about Othello.