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Thaïs (1917)

Thaïs poster
Directed by
Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1 min
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy woman becomes involved in a romantic drama. The film is the only surviving work from the Italian Futurist movement and is preserved in a French archive.

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What happens

Thaïs is a 1917 Italian silent film directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia. The movie is the sole surviving Italian Futurist film, and currently kept at the Cinémathèque Française. It is not based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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