La Superbia (1918)
Spanish cromo (colored collector's card). Chocolate Imperial, No. 20. Series Los siete pecados capitales. Caesar Film. Spanish distr. J. Gurgui, Barcelona. I sette peccati capitali (The Seven Capital Sins) was a series of films directed in 1918-1919 by various directors but always starring Italian diva Francesca Bertini. The episode Superbia (1918), aka L'Orgoglio in Italian and Soberbia in Spanish, was directed by Edoardo Bencivenga. Although launched with a big campaign, the series was less successful than expected. At the Czech Film Archive in Prague nitrate prints of the series were found and restored, and shown at the 2003 Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. The series was inspired by Eugène Sue's popular literature Les sept péchés capitaux.
During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Francesca Bertini (1892-1985) was a majestic diva of the Italian silent cinema. She often played the 'femme fatale', with men devouring eyes, glamorous attire, clenched fists, and in opulent settings...
La Superbia (1918)
Spanish cromo (colored collector's card). Chocolate Imperial, No. 20. Series Los siete pecados capitales. Caesar Film. Spanish distr. J. Gurgui, Barcelona. I sette peccati capitali (The Seven Capital Sins) was a series of films directed in 1918-1919 by various directors but always starring Italian diva Francesca Bertini. The episode Superbia (1918), aka L'Orgoglio in Italian and Soberbia in Spanish, was directed by Edoardo Bencivenga. Although launched with a big campaign, the series was less successful than expected. At the Czech Film Archive in Prague nitrate prints of the series were found and restored, and shown at the 2003 Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. The series was inspired by Eugène Sue's popular literature Les sept péchés capitaux.
During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Francesca Bertini (1892-1985) was a majestic diva of the Italian silent cinema. She often played the 'femme fatale', with men devouring eyes, glamorous attire, clenched fists, and in opulent settings...