director: David Robinson

 
Italy's most controversial poet, novelist and dramatist - Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) - inspired early-century filmmakers, and even dabbled in the new art himself. The Pordenone programme includes the following films:

SOGNO DI UN TRAMONTO D'AUTUNNO (Ambrosio, 1911)
Dir: Luigi Maggi; based on the 1898 play by G.D'Annunzio; photog: Giovanni Vitrotti; cast: Mary Cléo Tarlarini, Antonietta Calderari, Gigetta Morano, Mario Voller Buzzi. Print restored by the Nederlands Filmmuseum.

CABIRIA (Itala-Film, 1914)
Dir: Piero Fosco (Giovanni Pastrone); scr: Giovanni Pastrone from Il romanzo delle fiamme by Emilio Salgari; titles: G. D'Annunzio; Eff: Segundo de Chomon; cast: Carolina Catena, Lydia Quaranta, Umberto Mozzato, Bartolomeo Pagano, Italia Almirante Manzini. Print restored by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin.

CABIRIA (out takes)

IL PARADISO ALL'OMBRA DELLE SPADE (1917)
Documentary; titles written by G. D'Annunzio. Incomplete print from Gosfilmofond.

LA NAVE (Ambrosio-Zanotta, 1921) Dir: Gabriellino D'Annunzio, Mario Roncoroni; based on the 1908 play by G.D'Annunzio; cast: Ida Rubinstein, Alfredo Boccolini, Mary Cléo Tarlarini. Print restored by the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna and the Cineteca Italiana, Milan.

NON È RESURREZIONE SENZA MORTE (Sangro-Film, 1922)
Dir: Eduardo Bencivenga; scr: Vladimir Popovitch; cast: Elena Sangro, Carlo Guallandri. Reconstructed version by Dejan Kosanovic, La Cineteca del Friuli / Jugoslovenska Kinoteka.
Feature dealing with a Montenegrin subject. Only the first reel and some stills survive. Besides giving the title to the film, G.D'Annunzio contributed to its making as president of the Committee of Montenegrin Refugees that backed the production.