Cabiria (1914)

19142h 03mdir. Giovanni PastroneItalianKingdom of Italydrama filmwar film

With Bartolomeo Pagano, Lidia Quaranta, Teresa Marangoni, Umberto Mozzato, Italia Almirante Manzini, Vitale De Stefano, Émile Vardannes, Enrico Gemelli

Directed by Giovanni Pastrone

Cabiria is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). It follows the story of an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features an eruption of Mount Etna, religious rituals in Carthage, the alpine trek of Hannibal, Archimedes' defeat of the Roman fleet at the Siege of Syracuse and Scipio maneuvering in North Africa. Apart from being a classic on its own terms, the film is also notable for being the first film in which the long-running film character Maciste makes his debut. According to Martin Scorsese, in this work Pastrone invented the epic movi

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