The Warrior
ItalianMaciste alpino
Directed byLuigi Romano Borgnetto and Luigi Maggi
Starring
  • Bartolomeo Pagano : Maciste [1]
  • Valentina Frascaroli : Juliet
  • Enrico Gemelli : count of Pratolungo
  • Marussia Allesti : countess of Pratolungo
  • Felice Minotti
  • Fido Schirru : Fritz Pluffer
  • Evangelina Vitaliani
Production
company
Release date
1916
Running time
85 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguagesSilent
Italian intertitles

The Warrior (Italian: Maciste alpino) is a 1916 film directed by Luigi Romano Borgnetto and Luigi Maggi and starring Bartolomeo Pagano in the role of Maciste .

Production

This is one of the first films starring the character of Maciste, who Giovanni Pastrone created in 1914 Cabiria. It saw huge success in Italy and abroad and whose name is due to Gabriele D'Annunzio who thus created a neologism that is still in use today. The warrior is the best-known and critically praised film of the Maciste series.[2]

The film is not far from what will be (with the exception of Maciste in hell) a Escapism series with the horrors of the first world war is not really addressed.

See also

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Bibliography

Notes

  1. ↑ Paris 2019, p. 164.
  2. ↑ Reich 2015, p. 82.

References

  • Paris, Michael (August 6, 2019). First World War and Popular Cinema: 1914 to the Present. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474471527. - Total pages: 240
  • Reich, Jacqueline (2015). The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253017482. - Total pages: 432


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