L'Odissea (1911)

Directed by

Adolfo Padovan, Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro

Genre

silent film

Country

Kingdom of Italy

Runtime

44 min

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. It follows the hero Odysseus on his long journey home after the Trojan war.

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What happens

L'Odissea is a 1911 Italian silent film, the third known adaptation from Homer's Odyssey. The film was made in the context of the World's Fair held in Turin in 1911 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, where a film competition was launched for artistic, scientific and educational movies. Released in 1912 in the United States it was welcomed, in the trade journal The Moving Picture World, the film was proclaimed as marking "a new epoch in the history of the motion picture as a factory of education". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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