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Pierrot The Prodigal
''Pierrot the Prodigal'' (Italian: ''Histoire d'un Pierrot'') is a 1914 Italian silent film directed by Baldassarre Negroni and starring Francesca Bertini, Leda Gys and Emilio Ghione.Moliterno p.33 Cast * Francesca Bertini as Pierrot * Leda Gys as Louisette * Emilio Ghione Emilio Luigi Carlo Giuseppe Maria Ghione (30 July 1879 – 7 January 1930), known as Emilio Ghione, was an Italian silent film actor, director and screenwriter. Ghione was best known for writing, directing, and starring in the Za La Mort series ... as Pochinet * Elvira Radaelli as Fifine * Amedeo Ciaffi as Julot * Ninne as A Child References Bibliography * Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1914 films 1930s Italian-language films Italian silent films Films directed by Baldassarre Negroni Italian black-and-white films {{Italy-silent-film-stub ...
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Baldassarre Negroni
Baldassarre Negroni (21 January 1877 – 18 July 1948) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 89 films between 1912 and 1936. He directed the 1932 film '' Due cuori felici'', which starred Vittorio De Sica. Selected filmography * '' Pierrot the Prodigal'' (1914) * ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (1915) * '' The Courier of Moncenisio'' (1927) * ''The Last Tsars'' (1928) * '' Judith and Holofernes'' (1929) * ''Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * ''Pergolesi'' (1932) * ''Giallo'' (1933) * ''Steel'' (1933) * ''Bayonet A bayonet (from French ) is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed to fit on the end of the muzzle of a rifle, musket or similar firearm, allowing it to be used as a spear-like weapon.Brayley, Martin, ''Bayonets: An Illustr ...'' (1936) * '' The Ambassador'' (1936) References External links * 1877 births 1948 deaths Italian film directors 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Writers from Rome ...
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Fernand Beissier
Fernand is a masculine given name of French origin. The feminine form is Fernande. Fernand may refer to: People Given name * Fernand Augereau (1882–1958), French cyclist * Fernand Auwera (1929–2015), Belgian writer * Fernand Baldet (1885–1964), French astronomer * Fernand Berckelaers (1901– 1999), Belgian artist * Fernand Besnier (1894–1977), French cyclist * Fernand Boden (born 1943), Luxembourg politician * Fernand Bouisson (1874–1959), French politician * Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), French historian * Fernand Brouez (1861–1900), Belgian publisher * Fernand Buyle (1918–1992), Belgian footballer * Fernand Canelle (1882–1951), French footballer * Fernand Charpin (1887–1944), French actor * Fernand Collin (1897–1990), Belgian businessman * Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), French painter * Fernand Crommelynck (1886–1970), Belgian dramatist * Fernand David (1869–1935), French Minister of Agriculture * Fernand Decanali (1925–2017), French cyclist * Fern ...
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Francesca Bertini
Francesca Bertini (born Elena Seracini Vitiello; 5 January 1892 – 13 October 1985) was an Italian silent film actress. She was one of the most successful silent film stars in the first quarter of the twentieth-century. Biography Born in Prato, she was daughter of a woman who may have been an actress, but she was unmarried and Bertini was registered as Elena Taddei at an orphanage in 1892. Her mother, Adelina di Venanzio Fratiglioni, married Arturo Vitiello in 1910 and she took his family name. Bertini began performing on stages at the age of seventeen she began to perform in the just-born Italian movie production. She had a major role in Salvatore Di Giacomo's melodramatic story '' Assunta Spina''. She had made over 50 films by 1915 including, ''Histoire d'un pierrot'', was under the direction of Baldassarre Negroni in 1913. Gradually she developed her beauty and elegance, plus a strong, intense, and charming personality, which would be the key of her success as a silent mov ...
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Leda Gys
Giselda Lombardi, better known by her screen name Leda Gys (March 10, 1892 – October 2, 1957), was an Italian film actress of the silent era. The poet Carlo Alberto Salustri gave the aspiring actress her new name and introduced her to the film business in 1913. Her breakthrough role came in the epic ''Christus'', which was shot in Palestine and Egypt. She then married the producer Gustavo Lombardo and worked for his Naples-based Lombardo Films, generally appearing in comedies that were often directed by Eugenio Perego.Abel p.292 Selected filmography * ''Pierrot the Prodigal'' (1914) * '' The Wedding March'' (1915) * ''Christus Christus may refer to: * Christ (title) People * Petrus Christus (c. 1410s – c. 1475), Dutch painter * Sir Christus (1978–2017), Finnish musician Music * ''Christus'' (Liszt), an oratorio * ''Christus'' (Mendelssohn), an unfinished oratorio ...'' (1916) * '' Naples is a Song'' (1927) References Bibliography * Abel, Richard. ''Encyclopedia of ...
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Emilio Ghione
Emilio Luigi Carlo Giuseppe Maria Ghione (30 July 1879 – 7 January 1930), known as Emilio Ghione, was an Italian silent film actor, director and screenwriter. Ghione was best known for writing, directing, and starring in the Za La Mort series of adventure films, in which Ghione played a likeable French Apache and 'honest outlaw'. Ghione directed, wrote, and acted in every genre of film, and directed some of the most famous stars of the time, including Francesca Bertini, Lina Cavalieri, Alberto Collo, and Hesperia. After his final film role in 1926, Ghione briefly performed on a theatrical tour of Italy. Ghione wrote three novels based around his Za La Mort character, an autobiography, and an essay on Italian Silent Cinema, before his death from tuberculosis in 1930. In 1979, a retrospective of Ghione's films was held at the Venice Film Festival. In 2008, a retrospective of his films was held at the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna, and a temporary exhibition of photographs ...
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Mario Costa (composer)
Mario Costa may refer to: * Mario Costa (philosopher) (born 1936), Italian philosopher * Mario Costa (director) Mario Costa (30 May 1904, in Rome – 22 October 1995, in Rome) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter, active from 1934 to 1971. Selected filmography * ''Stadium'' (1934) * ''The Last of the Bergeracs'' (1934) * ''Guest for One Night'' ... (1904–1995) * Mario Pasquale Costa (1858–1933), Italian composer * Mário Teixeira Costa (born 1970), Portuguese footballer {{hndis, Costa, Mario ...
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Giorgio Ricci
Giorgio Ricci (b. 1870 in Verica) was an Italian entrepreneur known for bringing Italian immigrants to Araucanía in Chile under fraudulent conditions. Araucanía had been recently incorporated to Chile (1861-1883) when Ricci in 1904 brought to Chile a group of Italian immigrants from Emilia-Romagna, promising good lands for agriculture. Once in Chile immigrants were disappointed by the fact the lands he granted them were hilly forest not suitable for agriculture. The colony was initially called Nueva Italia but changed in 1907 name to Capitán Pastene. Soon however, many left for nearby towns such as Temuco and Traiguén Traiguén () is a Chilean city and commune in the Malleco Province, Araucanía Region. Demographics According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Traiguén spans an area of and has 19,534 inhabitants (9,734 men and 9,800 wo ... or even farther away into Santiago. In 1906 Ricci repeated the scheme bringing Italian immigrants in Brazil to ...
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Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy)
– Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version
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Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema pri ...
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Elvira Radaelli
Elvira is a female given name. First recorded in medieval Spain, it is likely of Germanic (Gothic) origin. Elvira may refer to: People Nobility * Elvira Menéndez (died 921), daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and wife of Ordoño II of León * Elvira of Castile, Queen of León (965–1017) * Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily (c. 1100–1135), wife of Roger II, King of Sicily * Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse (before 1082?-1151) * Elvira of Toro (1038/9–1101), daughter of King Ferdinand I of León * Elvira Menéndez (died 1022), Queen of León (1008–1022), wife of Alfonso V of León * Elvira Ramírez (c. 935–after 986), princess and regent of León Arts and entertainment * Elvira Amazar (1890s-1971), Serbian-born Russian-American soprano singer and actress * Elvira Barney (1904-1936), English actress and socialite * Elvira Betrone (1881–1961), Italian actress * Elvira Casazza (1887–1965), Italian mezzo-soprano * Elvira Cristi (born 1976), Chilean actress and ...
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Amedeo Ciaffi
Amedeo is an Italian given name meaning "lover of God", "loves God", or more correctly "for the love of God" and cognate to the Latin name Amadeus and the Spanish and Portuguese Amadeo. People with this name include: * A number of rulers and nobles associated with the historical region of Savoy ** Amadeus II, Count of Savoy ( 1078–1080) ** Amadeus III, Count of Savoy (r. 1103–1148) ** Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (r. 1233–1253) ** Amadeus V, Count of Savoy (r. 1285–1323) ** Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (r. 1343–1383) ** Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (r. 1383–1391) ** Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (r. 1391–1440), better known as Antipope Felix V ** Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (r. 1465–1472) ** Amedeo di Savoia (1845–1890), later Amadeo I of Spain ** Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1898–1942) ** Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) * Amedeo Avogadro Italian scientist * Amedeo Felisa (born 1946), CEO of Ferrari and Aston Martin *Amedeo Modigliani (a.k.a. Modi) Italian ...
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