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The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)

The Last Days of Pompeii poster
Original title
Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei
Directed by
Eleuterio Rodolfi, Mario Caserini
Genre
drama film, silent film, adventure film, disaster film, sword-and-sandal film, historical film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This silent film is set in ancient Pompeii right before the Mount Vesuvius eruption. It follows several characters as they face the disaster.

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What happens

Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (English title: The Last Days of Pompeii) is a 1913 Italian black and white silent film directed by Eleuterio Rodolfi. Based on Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 novel of the same name, the film – one of two different adaptations of the same book in Italy that year – is set during the final days leading up to the Mount Vesuvius eruption in Pompeii in 79 AD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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