Carnival week in Turin. The painter Marcello leaves his companion Giulia at home to meet his beautiful neighbour Lucy, disguised as Pierette. That very night, as the two are at the ball, Lucy’s moth...
Giannina Fourier is a beautiful young widow, and mother of two children, who works as custodian of a factory. The woman is the object of unwanted attention of the factory foreman Garaud who, rejected,...
The melancholy story of a juvenile love in the early twentieth century Turin: the student Mario meets and gets engaged to the seamstress Dorina, his landlady’s daughter. A beautiful and bored lady d...
Luca Comerio is perhaps the greatest documentary filmmaker in Italian silent cinema. War films have an important place within his immense production, in particular the ones dedicated to the Italo-Turk...
A documentary by Silvio Giacotto - Comment by Marziano Bernardi - Rudi Windsor on the electronic organ. Film dedicated to the Mole Antonelliana, considered as the symbolic monument of the city. The vi...
Images of the front facade of the Turin Cathedral and Piazza San Giovanni. The film was shot during the procession in honor of Saint Don Bosco in spring 1929, in presence of religious leaders and inst...
A pretty girl, smiling at the camera and at the public writes “Buonasera” (Good evening) on the chalkboard. The “number”, performed to say goodbye to the public at the end of the screening, c...
A dancing-girl wearing a white dress dances waving the edges of her voile skirt. Her silhouette stands out on a black background. The movie is an example of “dancers film” in vogue in the early mo...