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Jacobo Ortis (1918)

Jacobo Ortis poster
Directed by
Giuseppe Sterni
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man in early 19th century Italy writes letters about his hopeless love and political despair. The film shows his isolation and emotional pain as he struggles with personal and national tragedies.

melancholicslow-burnsomberlyricalnostalgicintimatequietreflective

What happens

Jacopo Ortis is a 1916 Italian silent drama film directed by Giuseppe Sterni and based on the novel Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis by Ugo Foscolo. It was the debut film of Paola Borboni. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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