Quo Vadis (1913 film)

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Quo Vadis
Film poster
Directed byEnrico Guazzoni
Written byEnrico Guazzoni
Based onQuo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
StarringAmleto Novelli
Gustavo Serena
Carlo Cattaneo
Amelia Cattaneo
Lea Giunchi
Bruto Castellani
Augusto Mastripietri
Cesare Moltini
Olga Brandini
Ignazio Lupi
Giovanni Gizzi
Lia Orlandini
Matilde Guillaume
Ida Carloni Talli
CinematographyEugenio Bava
Alessandro Bona
Production
company
Distributed byGeorge Kleine (U.S.)
Release date
  • March 1913 (1913-03)
[1][2]
Running time
120 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageSilent
Poster showing Lygia bound to the bull

Quo Vadis is an Italian film directed by

history of cinema,[3] with 5,000 extras
, lavish sets, and a lengthy running time of two hours, setting the standard for "superspectacles" for decades to come.

A worldwide success, it premiered in Germany at the opening night of the Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz (Berlin's first purpose-built, free-standing cinema), on 19 March 1913. In an unusual departure from normal cinematic practice, the crowd scenes were reinforced with "special mobs" of live costumed actors in the auditorium.[4][6]

Quo Vadis was the first film to be projected in the

Astor Theatre, a first-class theater on Broadway, where it was screened for nine months from April to December 1913. The film's first screening in London was for King George V, in the Royal Albert Hall
, who complimented the performers.

  • The film

Plot

The story is set during the latter years of the reign of the emperor

Europa
. But her life is saved by her bodyguard Ursus, who wrestles the bull to death.

Cast

  • Amleto Novelli as Vinicius
  • Gustavo Serena as Petronius
  • Amelia Cattaneo as Eunice
  • Carlo Cattaneo as Nero
  • Lea Giunchi as Lygia
  • Augusto Mastripietri as Chilo
  • Cesare Moltini as Tigellinus
  • Olga Brandini as Poppaea
  • Ignazio Lupi as Aulus
  • Giovanni Gizzi as Saint Peter
  • Lia Orlandini as servant Livia
  • Matilde Guillaume
  • Ida Carloni Talli as priestess
  • Ursus
  • Giuseppe Gambardella
Tinted still from an American advertisement

Other versions

Removal from U.S. distribution

When the 1924 version was issued, to prevent theatres from showing the 1913 film in competition, the Unione Cinematographica Italiana purchased all rights to the performance of 1913 film in the United States and Australia, including the existing inventory of film prints, stills, posters, and glass slides, from George Kleine, who had obtained the U.S. rights back in 1913.[7]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780810828162
    .
  2. ISBN 9788896013045
    .
  3. ISBN 978-0-8143-3008-1
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  4. ^ "Berlin crazy on film shows". New York Times. (Free PDF). 23 March 1913. p. 4c?.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ Lichtbild-Bühne, Nr. 26, 16 May 1914 (in German) at filmportal.de
  6. Al. Woods, an international theatre impresario who was also involved in the building of the Nollendorf Theatre in Berlin. The Miracle, with similar crowds of live costumed actors in the auditorium, opened in another Berlin cinema originally leased by Woods, the Ufa-Palast am Zoo, in May 1914.[5]
  7. ^ "Protect Exhibitors on Showing First National's Quo Vadis". The Moving Picture World. 72 (5). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 494 31 January 1925. Retrieved 14 August 2021.

Notes

  • The Peplum in the days of silent cinema, 1, ch. of "Cinema Peplum" Dominic Cammarota, "Future essays" n. 14, and. Fanucci, '87, p. 15th
  • The Dictionary of film Mereghetti-2002-cards, ed. Baldini & Castoldi, 2001, p. 1711.

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