''Emperor Maciste'' (Italian: ''Maciste imperatore'') is a 1924 Italian
silent adventure film directed by
Guido Brignone
Guido Brignone (6 December 1886 – 6 March 1959) was an Italian film director and actor. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone and younger brother of actress Mercedes Brignone.
Brignone was born in Milan, Italy. He was the first Italian ...
and starring
Bartolomeo Pagano
Bartolomeo Pagano (27 September 1878 – 24 June 1947) was an Italian motion picture actor.
Before his cinema career, Pagano was a stevedore who worked at the port of Genoa. There, he was discovered and selected to play the role of Maciste, a m ...
,
Domenico Gambino and
Franz Sala
Franz Sala (1886–1952) was an Italian film actor who appeared in over seventy films, mostly during the silent era. As his acting career wound down, he began to work as a makeup artist often credited as Francesco Sala. In some of his earliest f ...
. It was part of the
peplum series of silent films featuring the strongman
Maciste
Maciste () is one of the oldest recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d'Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from the 1910s to the mid-1960s.
He is usually depicted as a Herc ...
. The character of Maciste increasingly came to resemble
Benito Mussolini, in this case striking
Fascistic
Fascism is a far-right, Authoritarianism, authoritarian, ultranationalism, ultra-nationalist political Political ideology, ideology and Political movement, movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and pol ...
poses and defending order against criminal and dishonest elements.
[Gundle p.44]
Cast
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Bartolomeo Pagano
Bartolomeo Pagano (27 September 1878 – 24 June 1947) was an Italian motion picture actor.
Before his cinema career, Pagano was a stevedore who worked at the port of Genoa. There, he was discovered and selected to play the role of Maciste, a m ...
as Maciste
*
Domenico Gambino as Saetta
*
Franz Sala
Franz Sala (1886–1952) was an Italian film actor who appeared in over seventy films, mostly during the silent era. As his acting career wound down, he began to work as a makeup artist often credited as Francesco Sala. In some of his earliest f ...
*
Elena Sangro
Elena Sangro (born Maria Antonietta Bartoli Avveduti, 5 September 1897 – 26 January 1969) was an Italian actress.
Selected filmography
* '' The Crusaders'' (1918)
* '' Fabiola'' (1918)
* ''Samson'' (1923)
* '' Emperor Maciste'' (1924)
* '' Ple ...
*
Oreste Grandi
*
Augusto Bandini
Augusto Bandini (born 1889) was an Italian film actor.Dalle Vacche p.268 He appeared in more than forty productions, the majority of them during the silent era.
Selected filmography
* '' Emperor Maciste'' (1924)
* ''Maciste's American Nephew'' ...
*
Lola Romanos
*
Gero Zambuto
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Felice Minotti
Felice Minotti (19 November 1887 – 21 March 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 91 films between 1908 and 1963.
Selected filmography
* '' The Revenge of Maciste'' (1921)
* '' Maciste on Vacation'' (1921)
* ''The House of Pulci ...
*
Armand Pouget
Armand refer to:
People
* Armand (name), list of people with this name
*Armand (photographer) (1901–1963), Armenian photographer
*Armand (singer) (1946–2015), Dutch protest singer
*Sean Armand (born 1991), American basketball player
*Armand, ...
*
Lorenzo Soderini
References
Bibliography
* Gundle, Stephen. ''Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy''. Berghahn Books, 2013.
* Moliterno, Gino. ''Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
* Ricci, Steven. ''Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922–1943''. University of California Press, 2008.
External links
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1924 films
Italian adventure films
Italian silent feature films
1920s Italian-language films
Films directed by Guido Brignone
1924 adventure films
Films set in Europe
Maciste films
Italian black-and-white films
Silent adventure films
1920s Italian films
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