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Francesca Bertini (born Elena Seracini Vitiello; 5 January 1892 – 13 October 1985) was an Italian silent film actress. She was one of the most successful silent film stars in the first quarter of the twentieth-century.
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26 April 1950
Dora, daughter of the Marchioness of Río Zares, marries the politician Andrés. Despondent, Countess Zicka launches the lie that she is a spy.
01 June 1918
Glotonia and Frescalia are neighbor Ducal lands. In Glotonia everyone is fond of food. Young countess Frescalinda, daughter of a citizen of each country and tutored by the Great Duchess, is compelled to marry, but she has fallen in love with captain Gallardo Amore and will try everything before acceding to an unhappy marriage.
28 August 1976
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
21 November 1915
La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provincial bourgeois Armand Duval.
21 February 1914
Silent adventure film in which a horse riding woman has to save her husband from prison in a enemy country.
01 November 1929
The frenetic pace of the edit was intended to match the action, based on Article 635 of the French criminal code stipulating that after 20 years on the run, a penal colony escapee can regain his freedom if he evades capture by the police.
01 June 1914
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste.
26 June 1923
Raymonde (Bertini) has had a passionate affair with Giacomo (Giorgio Bonaiti) and has a son with him.
08 January 2004
Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century.
15 September 1915
Ivonne is a vulgar, loose, promiscuous and a passionate danseuse at the tavern. Countess Edith is an angelic creature, exquisitely elegant, a finite and aristocratic heiress.
21 October 1999
In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate) affectionately captures the spirit of the World War One-era cinema diva.
24 May 1929
La Possession is a 1929 French film directed by Léonce Perret.
12 February 1914
A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette.
01 March 1920
The dramatic events of the composer Mario Sirchi, falsely accused of murder, and his girlfriend Adonella who is revealed to have a secret sister, Nayda.
20 November 1915
Diana is assigned to find out the details of the enemy's war tactics. Together with her partner in crime, Robertson, she manages to get in touch with Captain Argo and retrieves secret information.
01 January 1918
Elena and Zefor are brothers. They live with their mother in a wild country where smuggling reigns. At their modest home, Zefor plays the violin while she dances to entertain the bandits.
27 September 1917
The Clemenceau Affair (Italian: Il processo Clémenceau) is a 1917 silent Italian adventure film directed by Alfredo De Antoni.
06 July 1918
The actress Francesca Bertini, as every diva worthy of her name, always arrives on the set extremely late.
01 April 1971
A woman from Czechoslovakia escapes her homeland after the occupation by the armies of Warsaw pact to Italy to tell the tale.
01 December 1921
Madeleine is a beautiful married woman, hopelessly attracted to her former lover, Jacques. This obsession leads to the destruction of her life and eventually drives her to suicide, while her husband goes insane.
01 January 1919
It tells the story of Dante Alighieri's love to Beatrice Portinari, loosely based on Dante's poetry.
31 October 1979
Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry.
16 June 1930
A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the Princess of Lystrie.
01 January 1918
A menaced politic leaves his child with another family who will raise her unaware of her true origin.
12 December 1910
Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.
29 October 1953
A former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction uses them to set up recreational performances at schools.
16 July 1910
Based on Oscar Wilde's version of the story, what is noteworthy is the sheer luxury of the production, an attempt to capture the wild and weird Aubrey Beardsley illustrations that transfigure the work.
01 December 1918
Maria and Luigi love each other in spite of their poverty, while she resists her many wealthy suitors.
01 January 1982
Documentary in which 94 year-old Francesca Bertini recalls her life and career while attending a screening of Assunta Spina.
27 October 1915
Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come.
01 July 1914
The Princess of Monte Cabello is divorced and is granted custody of her beloved daughter. Her ex-husband's mistress hires private detectives who take seemingly incriminating photographs of the Princess with the actor Jacques Wilson.
24 January 1912
The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
01 June 1913
Charles Raleigh is a cousin of Miss Clara Burton, and is secretly in love with her. She returns his affection in secret also.
01 September 1919
Sara is a very beautiful gypsy. One fine day, she meets a rich English woman, to whom she strangely reminds her late daughter.
01 February 1911
With a friend desperate for money, a merchant takes out a loan from a ruthless money-lender. Confident that his ships will soon be bringing him great wealth, the merchant willingly agrees to conditions of the loan that put him at great personal risk.
01 January 1913
"Idolo infranto is a fantastic way to appreciate Francesca Bertini in the mood for cruelty. From a tender shepherdess who inspires sublimely artistic acts, she becomes a vampire who drains souls and bank accounts with equal efficiency.
01 August 1925
Consuelita, a young woman who longs to escape the harsh conditions of her small fishing village, is married off to a wealthy, mentally ill Englishman.
01 January 1911
Film adaptation of the Celtic legend of Tristan and Iseult.
01 January 1910
A film based on the drama of the same name by Antonio Gutiérrez, which formed the basis for Giuseppe Verdi's famous opera Il Trovatore.
