''Saetta Learns to Live'' (Italian: ''Saetta impara a vivere'') is a 1924 Italian

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 ...

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

Domenico Gambino Domenico Gambino (17 May 1890 – 17 April 1968) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Gambino played Saetta, one of the rival strongman heroes to Maciste. Saetta had his own series of films during the early 1920s. He directed t ...

and

Pauline Polaire Pauline Polaire (stage name of Giulietta Gozzi) was an Italian actress. Giuletta Gozzi was born in Ravenna, Italy, on 30 June 1904. She was the niece of the Italian actress Hesperia (actress), Hesperia, née Olga Mambelli. She died in Rome on 11 ...

.Reich p.207 It was made by the

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

-based Fert Film.

Cast

as Saetta *

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Liliana Ardea Liliana is derived from the Latin word 'lilium' or 'lilion', both mean 'lily' in English. Due to this, the name means "pure" and "innocent". The name is generally found in North America, though it is more common in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese ...

Alberto Collo Alberto Collo (6 May 1883 – 7 May 1955) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred and thirty films during his career, mostly during the silent era. During the 1910s he starred in several films directed by Baldassarre Negroni.Molit ...

Giuseppe Brignone Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it. The feminine form of the name is Giusep ...

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 ...

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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'' ...

References

Bibliography

* Jacqueline Reich. ''The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema''. Indiana University Press, 2015.

External links

* 1924 films 1920s Italian-language films Films directed by Guido Brignone Italian silent feature films Italian black-and-white films {{Italy-silent-film-stub