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The Last Dream (1921 Film)
''The Last Dream'' (Italian:''L'ultimo sogno'') is a 1921 Italian silent film directed by Roberto Roberti and starring Francesca Bertini.Jandelli p.256 Cast * Francesca Bertini * Giorgio Bonaiti * Raoul Maillard * Mario Parpagnoli * Bianca Renieri * Marcella Sabbatini Marcella is a Roman cognomen and Italian given name, the feminine version of Marcello (Mark in English). Marcella means warlike, martial, and strong. It could also mean 'young warrior'. The origin of the name Marcella is Latin. Marcella may refer ... References Bibliography * Cristina Jandelli. ''Le dive italiane del cinema muto''. L'epos, 2006. External links * * (the film is listed twice) 1921 films 1920s Italian-language films Films directed by Roberto Roberti Italian silent feature films Italian black-and-white films {{Italy-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Roberti
Vincenzo Leone (24 July 1879 – 10 January 1959), known professionally as Roberto Roberti, was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He made over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. He was married to the actress Bice Valerian. Their son Sergio Leone became a celebrated director. During the 1910s Roberti made a number of films for the Turin-based Aquila Films, often featuring his wife in a leading role. He then moved to Caesar Film where he directed eighteen films starring the diva Francesca Bertini. Selected filmography * '' Tower of Terror'' (1913) * '' Indian Vampire'' (1913) * '' The Mystery of St. Martin's Bridge'' (1913) * '' The Princess of Bedford'' (1914) * ''The Bandit of Port Avon'' (1914) * '' The Danube Boatman'' (1914) * ''Theodora'' (1914) * ''Darkness'' (1916) * ''The Sinful Woman'' (1916) * ''The Cavalcade of Dreams '' (1917) * '' Eugenia Grandet'' (1918) * '' The Conqueror of the World'' (1919) * ''Countess Sarah'' (1919) * '' The Cheerful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesar Film
Caesar Film was an Italian film production and distribution company founded in 1913. The studio's owner Giuseppe Barattolo built it into one of the more successful silent film companies of the 1910s, thanks partly to signing up the diva Francesca Bertini to make a series of films.Moliterno p.23 Following the crisis in Italian production that followed the First World War, Barattolo took Caesar in as a member of the giant consortium Unione Cinematografica Italiana which pooled the resources of several major film producers. However the collapse of this company in 1925 left Caesar struggling. Following a boom in production following the arrival of sound in 1930, Barattolo relaunched Caesar and made several films without restoring it to its former strength. Barattolo subsequently became involved with Scalera Film, which was financially backed by Italy's Fascist Fascism is a far-right, Authoritarianism, authoritarian, ultranationalism, ultra-nationalist political Political ideolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
