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Voidsville Follies

Works by Dante Alighieri (2)

L'Inferno

Francesco Bertolini (director)
Adolfo Padovan (director)
Giuseppe de Liguoro (director/lead)
Emilio Roncarolo (cinematographer)
Dante Alighieri (author)
Salvatore Papa (lead)
Milano (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Mar 1911
Minutes: 72

Dante journeys into the afterlife, where obsessive completists who wasted their lives watching every silent movie available, then posting faux-witticisms, now are condemned to spend all eternity watching "L'Inferno".

Featured elements:

: adventure; afterlife; beheading; fantasy; monsters; prison; religion

Maciste In Hell (Maciste all’inferno)

Guido Brignone (director)
Ubaldo Arata (cinematographer)
Massimo Terzano (cinematographer)
Segundo de Chomón (cinematographer)
Riccardo Artuffo (writer)
Stefano Pittaluga (writer)
Dante Alighieri (author)
Bartolomeo Pagano (lead)
Elena Sangro (lead)
Itala (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Oct 1925
Minutes: 53

A surprisingly imaginative visual feast, not so far from Fellini.

Featured elements:

: action; adventure; afterlife; comedy; fantasy; femme fatale; fighting; heroic defender; religion; rescue; sexuality; strongman; treachery; uprising

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