Cabiria
All Nations Bow to This - The Greatest Spectacle the World Has Seen!
Country
Production
Budget
$210 000
Box office
$0
Director
Actors
Carolina Catena, Lidia Quaranta, Gina Marangoni, Dante Testa, Umberto Mozzato, Bartolomeo Pagano, Raffaele di Napoli, Emilio Vardannes, Edoardo Davesnes, Italia Almirante-Manzini
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Giovanni Tomatis
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
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. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is entrusted to a woman of noble birth. With Cabiria's fate unknown, Maciste punished for his heroism, and Fulvius sent away to fight for Rome, is there any hope of our heroes reuniting?
What's left behind the scenes
- Pilot Giovanni Vidner flew four circles over Rome, showering it with leaflets announcing the film's premiere.
- During the filming of the movie, Giovanni Pastrone used 12 arc reflectors of 100 amps each, the brightness of which he enhanced with reflecting screens covered in sheets of tin foil.
- Bartolomeo Pagano was not a professional actor, but a stevedore at the port of Genoa.
- Giovanni Pastrone placed glass over painted floors to simulate polished marble.
- To make Enrico Gemelli appear natural with a false beard, Giovanni Pastrone ordered him to grow his own.
- Preparing for filming, Giovanni Pastrone patented a trolley, the "travelling" (Italian: carello), in Italy on August 5, 1912. Simultaneously with the use of the trolley, Giovanni Pastrone first introduced several technical techniques: straight or zigzag movement, movement parallel to the scenery, and approaching and receding the camera.
- The film, and especially one of its characters—the giant Machiste (in the old Russian pronunciation, Matsist) played by Bartolomeo Pagano—was so popular that it is mentioned in Ilf and Petrov’s novel "The Twelve Chairs": "Ippolit Matveyevich was nicknamed Matsist in the office for his height, and especially for his mustache, although the real Matsist had no mustache at all."
- According to Jerzy Těplice, the screenplay was written by Giovanni Pastrone, signing it under the pseudonym Piero Fosco. Gabriele D'Annunzio merely placed his name in the credits.
- While preparing for the film, on August 5, 1912, Giovanni Pastrone patented a dolly, or "travelling" shot (Italian: carello), in Italy. Along with the use of the dolly, Giovanni Pastrone introduced several technical techniques for the first time: linear or zigzag movement, movement parallel to the sets, and zooming the camera in and out.
- During the filming, Giovanni Pastrone used 12 arc reflectors of 100 amperes each, enhancing their brightness with reflecting screens covered in sheets of tin foil.
- The film, and especially one of its characters—the giant Maciste, played by Bartolomeo Pagano—was so popular that it is mentioned in the novel 'The Twelve Chairs' by Ilf and Petrov: "Because of his great height, and especially his mustache, Ippolit Matveevich was nicknamed Maciste at the office, although the real Maciste had no mustache at all."
- Giovanni Pastrone placed glass over the painted floor to simulate polished marble.
- To ensure that Enrico Gemelli did not look unnatural in a false beard, Giovanni Pastrone ordered him to grow his own.
- According to Jerzy Töplitz, the screenplay was written by Giovanni Pastrone under the pseudonym Piero Fosco, while Gabriele D'Annunzio merely put his name in the credits.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
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