Fabiola (1918 film)

Fabiola
Directed byEnrico Guazzoni
Written byFausto Salvatori
Based onFabiola
by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
Starring
CinematographyAlfredo Lenci
Music byAlexander Henneman
Production
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Release date
  • 25 March 1918 (1918-03-25)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguagesSilent
Italian intertitles

Fabiola is a 1918 Italian silent historical film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Augusto Mastripietri, Amleto Novelli and Elena Sangro. It is an adaptation of the 1854 novel Fabiola by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman about the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. It was one of a series of historical epics for which the Italian film industry became famous during the era. The novel was later turned into a sound film of the same name in 1949.

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  • Sorlin, Pierre. Italian National Cinema 1896-1996. Routledge, 1996.
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