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 going on, and picked up on details that our lazier eyes sometimes miss.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Enrico Guazzoni
- Released
- 1911-06-10
- Running time
- 17 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Silent Films, Feature Films
Cast & crew
Enrico Guazzoni Director
Bruto Castellani- Ettore Mazzanti
- Gastone Monaldi
