The young student Mary spends the beginning of her holiday with boat trips, visits to her wealthy groom, and gardening. In fast-paced, rhythmic cuts, Louise and Jakob Fleck draw their audience into a carefree, urban romantic comedy. With a single scene, however, it turns into a melodrama about...
Carnevalesca with the beautiful Lydia Borelli is divided in to 4 parts: white carnival - innocent and pure childhood, blue carnival - love and youth, red carnival - violent and destructive passion, black carnival - death and madness.
An American director comes to Italy to shoot a film about the beautiful city of Naples, casting Pupatella (Leda Gys), a native of Santa Lucia, the sailors' neighborhood, in the movie. Eager to become a film star, Pupatella returns to America with Billy, but their relationship is destroyed by a...
Fred Holme is looking for candidates for the beauty contest in his London newspaper. In Rome he discovered the most beautiful woman in the world, the young arts and craftswoman Lucia Sarlo.
The actress Francesca Bertini, as every diva worthy of her name, always arrives on the set extremely late. One day, in the studio, she happened to hear a colleague actor who, back from the front, tells about the brutalities suffered by the civilians in the occupied territories. At night, still...
A famous tenor has a car accident and asks the owner of a pharmacy for hospitality. The pharmacist’s wife is fascinated by the singer and follows him to Rome. Hovewer, she is sent back home.
In "Fabiola" (1918) Herr Guarzzoni moved from the earliest days of Christianity when the new faith was struggling to just survive to a later period in the Roman Empire when the religion was a major force and attempting to win over Rome.
The story of the film «La storia di una donna», in which Pina Menichelli played the main role, is typical for «divas-films» – it’s about beauty and weakness of a woman, insidiousness and cowardice of men, inevitable destiny and mad passion…
Five year old Bobby is an illegitimate child being raised by an innkeeper and his wife. His mother's fiance is excited to have Bobby come to live with them, but his mother is less enthusiastic.
