The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913)

Original title

Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola

Directed by

Luigi Maggi, Marcel Perez

Genre

silent film, science fiction film, serial film

Country

Kingdom of Italy

Runtime

57 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 15 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.

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How it feels

A man named Saturnino Farandola travels through fantastical adventures in a silent film serial. It follows his extraordinary journeys based on a novel.

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What happens

Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola (English: The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola) is an Italian silent film of 1913 directed and interpreted by Marcel Fabre. It is divided into four episodes, inspired by the fantastic adventurous novel of Saturnino Farandola's extraordinary travels by Albert Robida (1879). It is sometimes cited by critics as one of the first expressions of European science fiction films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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