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Amleto (1910 Film)
- Director
- Mario Caserini
Abbreviated version of the play directed by Mario Caserini with Amleto Novelli as Hamlet.
Re Lear (1910 Film)
aka: King Lear Roi Lear, Le
- Director
- Gerolamo Lo Savio
Shortened version of the play which depicts most of the main events but omits the Edgar subplot. Ball (op cit) comments ‘Without subtitles this film could not be understood at all...one sees only tirades...
Mercante di Venezia, Il (1910 Film)
aka: Merchant of Venice, The
- Director
- Gerolamo Lo Savio
A shortened version of the play which omits the casket scene and the business concerning Portia’s ring. Some scenes were filmed in Venice.
Racconto d’Inverno (1910 Film)
aka: Winter’s Tale, The
A version of The Winter’s Tale. Cines’ press material reads ‘a magnificent series of pictures dealing with episodes in Shakespeare’s wonderful tragedy. Acted in the most perfect manner, amid scenes...
Giulio Cesare (1909 Film)
aka: Brutus Julius Caesar
- Director
- Giovanni Pastrone
- Producer
- Louis Albert
An abbreviated version of the play. Ball finds the picture disappointing, commenting on the poorly handled crowd scenes, unnecessary invented action, and primitive photography and acting.
Macbeth (1909 Film)
- Director
- Mario Caserini
Silent version of Macbeth presented as an historical spectacle and directed by Mario Caserini with Dante Capelli and Maria Gasperini as the Macbeths. Contemporary accounts speak of ‘very fine tableaux’...
Otello (1909 Film)
aka: Othello
- Director
- Gerolamo Lo Savio
Fiction film version of Othello, filmed mostly on location in Venice, with Ferruccio Garavaglia as Othello.
Amleto (1908 Film)
aka: Hamlet
Fiction short. A version of Hamlet.
Romeo e Giuletta (1908 Film)
aka: Romeo and Juliet
Fiction short. Version of Romeo and Juliet.
Othello (1907 Film)
A version of Othello. Ball (op cit, p. 306) notes that the naming of the director as Mario Caserini and the actor Ubaldo Del Colle as Othello is speculative. The Walturdaw Animated Pictures catalogue (the...