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L'Inferno is a 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from Inferno, the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. L'Inferno took over three years to make, and was the first full-length Italian feature film.[2]

L'Inferno
Directed by
  • Francesco Bertolini
  • Adolfo Padovan
  • Giuseppe De Liguoro
[1]
Based onThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
StarringSalvatore Papa
Arturo Pirovano
Giuseppe de Liguoro
Augusto Milla
CinematographyEmilio Roncarolo
Music byRaffaele Caravaglios (original soundtrack)

Tangerine Dream (2004 DVD)

Edison Studio (2011 DVD)
Production
company
Milano Films
Distributed byHelios
Release date
  • 10 March 1911 (1911-03-10)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageSilent film
BudgetGreater than 100,000 Lire[2]
L'Inferno

Plot


Dante is barred from entering the hill of salvation by three beasts that block his path (Avarice, Pride, and Lust). Beatrice descends from above and asks the poet Virgil to guide Dante through the Nine Circles of Hell. Virgil leads Dante to a cave where they find the river Acheron, over which Charon ferries the souls of the dead into Hell. They also see the three-headed Cerberus and Geryon, a flying serpent with a man's face. They see the Devil eating human beings whole, harpies eating the corpses of suicides, an evil man forced to carry his own severed head for eternity, people half-buried in flaming lava, etc.

There follows a series of encounters in which the two meet up with a number of formerly famous historical figures whose souls were denied by both Heaven and Hell, and they listen to some of their tales told in flashback. These characters include Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucanus, Cleopatra, Dido, the Queen of Carthage, the traitor Caiphus, Count Ugolino, Peter of Vigna, Francesca Da Rimini and her lover Paulo, Brutus and Cassius, Mohammed, and Helen of Troy. The film's main attraction is the fantastic set designs depicting the horrors of Hell, with excessive violence and gore, designed to frighten the audience into becoming pious or God-fearing.


Cast



Production


L'Inferno's depictions of Hell closely followed those in the engravings of Gustave Doré for an edition of the Divine Comedy, which were familiar to an international audience,[2][3] and employed several special effects.[4]

As Dante's Divine Comedy places Muhammad in hell, the film also has a momentary unflattering depiction of Muhammad in its Hell sequence (his chest explodes, exposing his entrails).[5]

Nancy Mitford recorded seeing the film in Italy in 1922, referring to it as Dante. She records that it lasted from 9 until 12:15 including two intermissions. She details many of the deaths and tortures from the film. Her description of the film in her letter home is quoted during the biography Nancy Mitford by Harold Acton.[6]

The scenes from Hell from the film were reused in an American 1936 exploitation film, Hell-O-Vision and the 1944 race film Go Down, Death!.[7][8] Some American state film censor boards required removal of the hell sequences from L'Inferno used in Go Down, Death!, such as one where a woman's bare breast is momentarily seen.[8]


Release


L'Inferno was first screened in Naples in the Teatro Mercadante on March 10, 1911.[2] An international success, it grossed more than $2 million in the United States, where its length gave theater owners an excuse for raising ticket prices.[4]


Home video


For many years, L'Inferno was largely unseen and only available in lower quality, incomplete copies.


See also



References


  1. Welle, John P. "Early Cinema, Dante's Inferno of 1911, and the Origins of the Italian Film Culture." Dante, Cinema, and Television. Ed. Amilcare A Iannucci. University of Toronto Press, 2004. 36. Book.
  2. Welle, John P. (2004). "Early Cinima, Dante's Inferno of 1911, and the Origins of Italian Film Culture". In Iannucci, Amilcare A. (ed.). Dante, Cinema, and Television. University of Toronto Press. pp. 36, 38–40. ISBN 0-8020-8827-9.
  3. Bondanella, Peter (2009). A History of Italian Cinema. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-441-16069-0.
  4. Braida, Antonella (2007). "Dante's Inferno in the 1900s: From Drama to Film". In Braida, Antonella; Calé, Luisa (eds.). Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 47–49. ISBN 978-0-7546-5896-2.
  5. Plate, S. Brent (2006). Blasphemy: Art that Offends. Black Dog. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-9047-7253-8.
  6. Acton, Harold (2010). Nancy Mitford. Gibson Square. ISBN 978-1-906142-57-5.
  7. Looney, Dennis (2004). "Spencer Williams and Dante: An African-American Filmmaker at the Gates of Hell". In Iannucci, Amilcare A. (ed.). Dante, Cinema, and Television. University of Toronto Press. pp. 135–36. ISBN 0-8020-8601-2.
  8. Weisenfeld, Judith (2007). Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949. University of California Press. pp. 115–19, 127–28. ISBN 978-0-520-22774-3.


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[ru] Ад (фильм, 1911)

«Ад» (итал. L’inferno) — итальянский немой фильм режиссёров Франческо Бертолини (Francesco Bertolini), Адольфо Падована и Джузеппе де Лигуоро, снятый по мотивам «Божественной комедии» Данте Алигьери. Первый показ прошел 10 марта 1911 года в театре Мерканданте в Неаполе[1]. Это был первый фильм, зарегистрированный в государственном реестре охраняемых произведений. «Ад» имел международный успех, он собрал более, чем 2 миллиона долларов в Соединенных Штатах, где его длина дала владельцам кинотеатров повод для повышения цен на билеты[2].


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