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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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