Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2006 Sommario / Contents

the way in which popular cinema can capture the moods and tendencies of
its own times, the class conflict crumbles in the face of the social myth of
show-business: the crowd, belligerent only a moment before, changes mood
completely the moment it recognizes in Maciste a cinema divo.
The restoration of Maciste innamorato (Maciste in Love) was carried out
in 2006 by the Cineteca di Bologna and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema
of Turin, at the laboratory L’Immagine Ritrovata, from a tinted nitrate print
with English intertitles conserved by the BFI NFTVA, London, and from a
nitrate negative printed from a work copy of the period, intended for the
French market, conserved by the Cinémathèque Française in Paris. The
Italian intertitles have been reconstructed from the evidence of period
documents conserved in the Museo Nazionale del Cinema of Turin.
STELLA DAGNA,ALESSANDRO MAROTTO
SOLE / LA REGINA DI MARECHIARO (Polifilm, IT 1919)
Regia/dir: Giulio Antamoro; scen: Pasquale Parisi; f./ph: Domenico
Bazzichelli; cast: Leda Gys (Sole), Giovanni Grasso (Totò), Ignazio Lupi
(barone/Baron Silvestro Bandi), Goffredo D’Andrea (marchese
di/Marquis de Vamberry), Piero Concialdi; prod: 1918 (Napoli); première:
21.3.1919 (Roma); 35mm, 3280 ft., 55’ (16 fps), George Eastman House,
Roberto Pallme Collection.
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Copia preservata e stampata nel 2004 / Preserved and printed 2004.
Didascalie in italiano / Italian intertitles.
“Sole” è il nome dell’irresistibile napoletana che fa perdere la testa (e
la ragione) a un povero spasimante legandolo alla porta del suo
tugurio per una notte intera. Un giovane marchese ha più fortuna, ma
commette l’errore di tentare di educarla alla vita borghese.
Ossessionato dal fascino di lei, un libertino incallito prova a sedurla
proprio là dove il primo amante aveva fallito: la punizione che lo
attende è ai limiti del sadismo. Leda Gys, stella del cinema muto
italiano post-bellico, imita Mae Marsh saltellando davanti alla macchina
da presa nel ruolo di un’innocente selvaggia. – PAOLO CHERCHI USAI
“Sole” is the name of a freewheeling Neapolitan girl who drives her suitor
insane (literally!) after tying him to a door all night long outside her cabin.
A young marquis has better luck, but tries to give the wild nymph an
education and a bourgeois respectability, to no avail. Obsessed with her, a
local libertine makes another attempt to seduce her by the same door
where the first lover failed; this time, the punishment awaiting him is
definitely on the sadistic side. Leda Gys, a post-WWI starlet of Italian
cinema, imitates Mae Marsh’s jumping up and down in her instinctive
performance of a savage ingénue.– PAOLO CHERCHI USAI