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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "afterlife" (4)

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

After Death (По́сле сме́рти)

Yevgeny Bauer (director/writer)
Boris Zavelev (cinematographer)
Ivan Turgenev (author)
Vera Karalli (lead)
Vitold Polonsky (lead)
Georg Asagaroff (lead)
Olga Rakhmanova (lead)
Khanzhonkov (production)

Language: Silent, Russian titles, English subtitles, released in Dec 1915
Minutes: 46

Stark, gripping, haunting, enigmatic - not your average drive-in flick...Go deeper: see review on Silents, Please!

Featured elements:

: abstraction; afterlife; alienation; backstage; death scene; flashback; humanoids; melodrama; obsession; suicide; unrequited love

The Dying Swan (Умирающий лебедь)

Yevgeny Bauer (director)
Boris Zavelev (cinematographer)
Zoya Barantsevich (writer)
Vera Karalli (lead)
Aleksandr Kheruvimov (lead)
Vitold Polonsky (lead)
Andrey Gromov (lead)
Khanzhonkov (production)

Language: Silent, Russian titles, English subtitles, released in Jan 1917
Minutes: 49

“There is no need for words if your soul is singing” - the lawyer told her...

Featured elements:

: abstraction; afterlife; alienation; backstage; dance; death scene; foreshadowing; forsaken; humanoids; obsession; psycho; tragic artist; unrequited love

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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