''Italy Has Awakened'' (Italian:''L'Italia s'è desta'') is a 1927 Italian

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directed by

Elvira Notari Elvira Notari (born Elvira Coda; 10 February 1875 – 17 December 1946) was an Italian film director, one of the country's earliest and most prolific female filmmaker. She is credited as the first woman who made over sixty feature films and about ...

and starring

Eduardo Notari Eduardo Notari (1903–1986) was an Italian film actor of the silent era. Notari came from Naples, and most of the films he starred in were set in or around the city. His parent Elvira Notari and Nicola Notari ran the Dora Film studio. He began hi ...

.Kuhn p.299 The title refers to the Italian

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Il Canto degli Italiani "" (; "The Song of the Italians") is a canto written by Goffredo Mameli set to music by Michele Novaro in 1847, and is the current national anthem of Italy. It is best known among Italians as the "" (, "Mameli's Hymn"), after the author of the ...

Cast

* Clara Boni *

* E. Pensa * Gennaro Santoro * Oreste Tesorone

References

Bibliography

* Annette Kuhn. ''The Women's Companion to International Film''. University of California Press, 1990.

External links

* 1927 films Italian silent feature films 1920s Italian-language films Films directed by Elvira Notari Italian black-and-white films {{Italy-silent-film-stub