Bride of the Nile (1911)
Also known as La sposa del Nilo
1911 · Silent film · 17 min · dir. Enrico Guazzoni
- Short
Synopsis
La Sposa del Nilo (1911) was a proto-epic, where you could sense the Italian filmmakers (Enrico Guazzoni in this case) gearing up to the gigantic imaginings of Cabiria and Quo Vadis just a few years on. The film wanted to impress you with its stateliness and scale; at time the central action (a young virgin is drowned to appease Isis and ensure that the Nile floods) became lost in the crowded frame – but that just reminded you that early cinema audiences look that much more intently at what was…
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Details
- Director
- Enrico Guazzoni
- Released
- 1911-06-10
- Running time
- 17 minutes
Cast & crew
Enrico Guazzoni Director
Bruto Castellani- Ettore Mazzanti
- Gastone Monaldi
