Lost in the Dark (1914 film)

1914 Italian film
  • Giovanni Grasso Sr.
  • Maria Carmi
  • Virginia Balestrieri
Edited byNino MartoglioMusic byE. de Leva
Production
company
Morgana Films
Release date
  • November 1914 (1914-11)
Running time
66 minutesCountryItalyLanguagesSilent
Italian intertitles

Lost in the Dark (Italian: Sperduti nel buio) is a 1914 Italian silent drama film directed by Nino Martoglio and starring Giovanni Grasso Sr., Maria Carmi and Virginia Balestrieri. Documenting life in the slums of Naples, it is considered a precursor to the Italian neorealism movement of the 1940s and 1950s.[1] The only known surviving copy of this film was destroyed by Nazi German forces during World War II.[2] The film is based on a 1901 play of the same title by Roberto Bracco.

Cast

  • Giovanni Grasso Sr. as Nunzio the blind man
  • Maria Carmi as Livia Blanchard
  • Virginia Balestrieri as Paolina
  • Vittorina Moneta as Paolina's mother
  • Dillo Lombardi as Duke of Vallenza
  • Totò Majorana as Nunzio's stepfather
  • Gina Benvenuti as Nunzio's mother
  • Maria Balistrieri
  • Ettore Mazzanti

References

  1. ^ Katz, Ephraim (2001), "Italy", The Film Encyclopedia, HarperResource, pp. 682–685, ISBN 978-0060742140
  2. ^ Reich & Garofalo p.83

Bibliography

  • Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Lost in the Dark at IMDb


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