Cabiria (1914)
June 1, 1914Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Carolina Catena
Cabiria (Chlld)
Lidia Quaranta
Cabiria (Adult)
Gina Marangoni
Croessa
Dante Testa
Karthalo
Umberto Mozzato
Fulvio Axilla
Bartolomeo Pagano
Maciste
Raffaele di Napoli
Bodastoret - the Innkeeper
Emilio Vardannes
Hannibal
Edoardo Davesnes
Hasdrubal
Italia Almirante-Manzini
Sophonisba - Hasdrubal's Daughter
Alex Bernard
Siface 'Syphax' - King of Cirta
Luigi Chellini
Scipione 'Scipio' - the Consul
Vitale Di Stefano
Massinissa - the Numidian King
Enrico Gemelli
Archimede
Ignazio Lupi
Arbace
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Novel
Emilio Salgari
Novel
Giovanni Pastrone
Screenplay / Director / Producer
Manlio Mazza
Music
Giovanni Tomatis
Director of Photography
Carlo Franzeri
Director of Photography
Segundo de Chomón
Director of Photography / Special Effects
Natale Chiusano
Director of Photography
Augusto Battagliotti
Director of Photography
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Cabiria is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). It follows a melodramatic main plot about an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features an eruption of Mount Etna, heinous religious rituals in Carthage, the alpine trek of Hannibal, Archimedes' defeat of the Roman fleet at the Siege of Syracuse and Scipio maneuvering in North Africa. Apart from being a classic on its own terms, the film is also notable for being the first film in which the long-running film character Maciste makes his debut. According to Martin Scorsese, in this work Pastrone invented the epic movie and deserves credit for many of the innovations often attributed to D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Among those was the extensive use of a moving camera, thus freeing the feature-length narrative film from "static gaze".
The historical background and characters in the story are taken from Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (written ca. 27–25 BC). In addition, the script of Cabiria was partially based on Gustave Flaubert's 1862 novel Salammbo and Emilio Salgari's 1908 novel Cartagine in fiamme (Carthage in Flames). It was the first film shown at the White House, having been viewed on the South Lawn, by the President, First Lady, Vice President, his wife, members of the Cabinet and their wives, due to the summer heat in June 1914.