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    Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (13 September 1883 – 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter...
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    of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years...
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    caduta di Troia) is a 1911 Italian silent short film directed by Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto. It is the first known cinematographic...
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  • Francesco Pasinetti Pier Paolo Pasolini Uberto Pasolini Sergio Pastore Giovanni Pastrone Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Livio Pavanelli Pier Ludovico Pavoni Riccardo...
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    Cabiria (category Films 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...
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    recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d'Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from...
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  • Griffith Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo...
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  • 1961), television presenter. Carlo Parola (1921–2000), footballer. Giovanni Pastrone (1883–1959), director. Giuseppe Patrucco (born 1932), retired footballer...
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  • The Fire (1916 film) (category Films directed by Giovanni Pastrone)
    Fire (Italian: Il fuoco) is a 1916 Italian silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. It is loosely based on the novel The Flame by Gabriele D'Annunzio...
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    of the first Italian films were aired in Turin. Examples include Giovanni Pastrone Cabiria, in 1914, one of the first blockbusters in history. The Turin-based...
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    Tigre reale (category Films directed by Giovanni Pastrone)
    1916 silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone under the name Piero Fosco, adapting the eponymous 1875 novel by Giovanni Verga. Giorgio La Ferlita, Italian...
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    Antonelliana Interior Statue of Moloch from the film "Cabiria" from Giovanni Pastrone Rotunda Director's chair Marilyn Monroe's photos and objects Magic...
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    Lohenstein Cabiria (1914), classic Italian silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Masinissa is portrayed by Vitale Di Stefano. Scipio the African (1971)...
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    such as Fior di male (1914), by Carmine Gallone, Il fuoco (1915), by Giovanni Pastrone, Rapsodia satanica (1917), by Nino Oxilia and Cenere (1917), by Febo...
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  • (1941), directed by Alessandro Blasetti Cabiria (1914), directed by Giovanni Pastrone La terra trema (1948), directed by Luchino Visconti Bicycle Thieves...
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  • Maciste the Athlete (category Films directed by Giovanni Pastrone)
    atleta) is a 1918 Italian silent film directed by Vincenzo Denizot and Giovanni Pastrone and starring Bartolomeo Pagano. It is part of the Maciste series....
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    work in 1904. "The fall of Troy" (1911), an Italian silent film by Giovanni Pastrone, the first known movie adaptation of Homer's epic poem. "Achilles...
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    Masson after Flaubert (1998) Cabiria, a 1914 Italian silent film by Giovanni Pastrone Salambò, a 1915 Italian silent film by Domenico Gaido, released in...
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    the first film adaptation of a Salgari novel. Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone bears many similarities to Emilio Salgari's 1908 adventure novel Cartagine...
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    singer and musician (b. 1920) June 27 Elias, Duke of Parma (b. 1880) Giovanni Pastrone, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1883) June 30 – José...
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  • date Notes Cabiria 1914 a monumental Italian production (dir. by Giovanni Pastrone, after the screenplay by Gabriele d'Annunzio), touching on Hannibal's...
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    Solus ad solam, was published posthumously. Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone (1914) – screenplay La Nave directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio (1921)...
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  • goat-like, humanoid creature, similar to the Canaanite god Moloch. In Giovanni Pastrone's silent epic film Cabiria (1914), substantially based on Flaubert...
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    the oldest of film genres, with one early notable example being Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria, a two-and-a-half hour silent film about the Punic Wars,...
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    esp. toward or away from the subject being filmed or televised. Giovanni Pastrone first used this method in 1914. Doppio Borgato: a musical instrument...
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    Zinga - Itala Film Torino 1916 - The fire, by Giovanni Pastrone 1916 - Tigre reale, by Giovanni Pastrone 1896 ca. - La Sera 1897 - Fleurs de Mousse de...
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  • directed by D. W. Griffith Cabiria, 1914 Italian silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone Intolerance, 1916 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith The Ten Commandments...
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    Guazzoni) Antony and Cleopatra (1913) Cabiria (1914, directed by Giovanni Pastrone) Julius Caesar (1914) Saffo (Sappho, 1918, directed by Antonio Molinari)...
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  • Hedda Gabler (1920 film) (category Films directed by Giovanni Pastrone)
    is a 1920 Italian silent drama film directed by Gero Zambuto and Giovanni Pastrone. It is based on the 1890 play Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. Italia...
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    and he began starring in the Cretinetti comedy series directed by Giovanni Pastrone, an artist later thought by Martin Scorsese as the father of many...
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