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The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola poster
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

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.

whimsicalpacedfantasticalold-fashionedlightheartedepisodicadventurous

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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