Country: Italy
Year: 1913
Duration: 110'
In wealthy 1st century AD Pompei, Glauco loves beautiful Jone. They are the most envied couple of the city and spark the anger of Arbace, a priest dedicated to the cult of Iside who is secretly in love with Jone. Arbace tries everything to separate the two young people; he even makes use of the unsuspecting help of Nidia, a young blind flower vendor who is in love with Glauco. Arbace dies in the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius that sows terror and destruction, while Glauco and Jone manage to escape in a boat. Nidia, after having guided the couple to the water’s edge, lets herself be taken away by the tide. The second film version, after the 1908 film, that the Società Ambrosio based on the bestseller by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton. The film is being projected in the version restored by the National Cinema Museum and by the Cineteca of the Municipality of Bologna, at the laboratory L’Immagine ritrovata.
Biography
film director
Eleuterio Rodolfi
Eleuterio Rodolfi (Bologna, Italy, 1876 - Brescia, Italy, 1933) debuted in theater as a “generic young man” and continued his theatrical activity until 1912, when he moved on to cinema as a director and actor for the Società Ambrosio of Torino. With Gigetta Morano, he directed and acted in numerous comedies, but he also tried other genres during his career: from historical dramas to theatrical adaptations. In 1917 he founded his own production company, only to return to theater during the 1920s. He later moved to Brescia, where he committed suicide.
FILMOGRAFIA
Un buon posto (1912), La prima notte (1912), Chi la dura la vince (1912), I Promessi Sposi (1913), Cenerentola (1913), Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (1913), La bisbetica domata (1913), Le acque miracolose (1914), Il poeta (1914), Un curioso accidente (1914), La scintilla (1915), La danza di Salomè (1915), Il temporale (1915), Romanticismo (1915), Gigetta l’avventuriera (1916), La presa della Bastiglia (1916), La fiaccola sotto il moggio (1916), La Gioconda (1916), Il delitto dell’Opera (1917), Vertigine (1917), Amleto (1917), La signora Rebus (1918), Il mistero della casa di fronte (1919), Roberto Burat (1920), Maciste e il nipote d’America (1924)