Masked Ball (1917)

Original title

Álarcosbál

Directed by

Alfréd Deésy

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Austria–Hungary, Austria, Hungary

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent drama based on Verdi's opera about a masked ball where political and romantic tensions lead to betrayal and murder. A secretary governor gets caught in the intrigue.

dramaticmelodramaticstagedtheatricalsilent-erahistoricalseriousformal

What happens

Masked Ball (Hungarian: Álarcosbál) is a 1917 Hungarian film directed by Alfréd Deésy and featuring Béla Lugosi and Norbert Dan. The screenplay was written by Francesco Maria Piave, Eugène Scribe and Antonio Somma. It was based on the opera Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi. Lugosi played Rene, a Secretary Governor, one of his earliest "red herring" roles. The film was first shown at the Urania Theater in Budapest on Oct. 21, 1917. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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