Mario Caserini Movies

“Madame Tallien” (1916) depicts the libertine life and loves of the eponymous decadent aristocrat, an important activist who was ahead of...

Grand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the Chief of the General Staff. After a spy named Moise...

Well-respected Pompeiian Glaucus performs an act of kindness by purchasing Nydia, a blind slave being mistreated by her owner. Nydia falls in love...

This story first takes you to Misslimeri, a little Sicilian village, and into the home of Don Ruggero, a wealthy landowner. Don Ruggero is an...

A woman and a mistress fight.

A melodrama about a female lion tamer who has an extramarital relationship with a distinguished gentleman, and then moves in with him. When she later...

A selection of Hamlet’s most famous scenes are reproduced in this Italian production from 1910.

A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

Italian silent film Victory or Death, directed by Caserini. An early crime thriller, the plot revolves around the Countess Alberti -- played by Berta...

Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection.

Pisa, 11th century. Spina, a young priestess daughter of Peter, is devoted to keeping a flame burning that illuminates the way back for those...

An eight-minute fragment of this Italian Golden Age film survives.