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  • Alberto Capozzi & Gero Zambuto – Il fiacre n. 13 (1917)

    1911-1920Alberto CapozziGero ZambutoItalySilent

    EP.1 – IL DELITTO AL PONTE DE NEULLY
    EP.2 – GIAN GIOVEDÌ’
    EP.3 – LA FIGLIA DEL GHIGLIOTTINATO
    EP.4 – GIUSTIZIA!
    “Not many Italian silent films structured in episodes have survived, though a good many were made (see Monica Dall’Asta, “La diffusione dei film a episodi in Europa”, in Storia del cinema mondiale. Vol. 1: L’Europa. I. Miti, luoghi divi, Einaudi, 1999, p.309). Most of them were based on foreign models, particularly French, and some were direct reworkings. One such case is Il Fiacre n. 13, from the novel of the same title by Xavier Henri Aymon Perrin, Count of Montépin, a highly prolific and much-loved author whose books were vehicles for the depiction of social inequality, narrating stories of love, death, betrayal, blackmail, and redemption. Read More »

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