Cabiria
Kino Video (1914)
Adventure, Drama
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IMDB   6.9
2 hr 2 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Italia Almirante Manzini
Letizia Catena
Letizia Quaranta
Umberto Mozzato Fulvio 'Fulvius' Axilla
Bartolomeo Pagano Maciste, Axilla's Slave
Carolina Catena Cabiria, as a Child (as Catena)
Lidia Quaranta Cabiria, also called Elissa
Gina Marangoni Croessa, Cabiria's Nurse
Dante Testa Karthalo, the High Priest
Raffaele di Napoli Bodastoret, the Innkeeper
Emilio Vardannes Hannibal
Edoardo Davesnes Hasdrubal
Italia Almirante-Manzini Sophonisba, Hasdrubal's Daughter
Litizia Catena
Italia Manzini
Alessandro Bernard Sifax
Luigi Chellini Cónsul Escipión
Director
Giovanni Pastrone
Producer Giovanni Pastrone
Writer Giovanni Pastrone
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Titus Livus
Emilio Salgari
Cinematography Augusto BATTAGLIOTTI
Eugenio BAVA
Natale CHIUSANO
Segundo de CHOMÓN
Carlo FRANZERI
Giovanni TOMATIS
Musician Ildebrando Pizzetti
Manlio MAZZA

Giovanni Pastrone's Monumental 1914 Epic Of Italian Silent Cinema

Inspired by grand opera and Italy's imperialist victory in the Libyan War (1911-12), the Italian movie industry produced dozens of historical epics in the period just before World War I. The most influential and successful of these was Cabiria, the visually spectacular film which set the standard for big-budget feature-length movies around the world and opened the way for D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille.

The story concerns a girl - Cabiria - who is separated from her parents during the Punic Wars in the Third Century B.C. In her odyssey through the world of ancient Rome, she encounters the eruption of Mt. Etna, capture by pirates, the barbaric splendor of Carthage, human sacrifice and Hannibal crossing the Alps. With meticulous care given to costume and set design, Cabiria was shot in North Africa, Sicily and the Italian Alps.

This Kino on Video edition was mastered from a premiere quality 35mm print at the correct projection speed. The piano soundtrack, performed by Jacques Gauthier, is adapted from the original 1914 score.
Edition Details
Distributor Kino Video
Chapters 15
Release Date 11/7/2000
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles English
Audio Tracks SIL [English]
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

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