A Blind Retribution
About A Blind Retribution
Gradeniga, the Doge's widow, watches from a palace on the Brenta for the ship carrying her rival Pantea and Orseolo. Her maid Pentella brings the sorceress Schiavona into the palace before nightfall. A ritual follows, and a glare on the river marks the fire that kills the two lovers. Luigi Maggi's short takes that action from Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1898 tragedy.
Cast & crew
More about A Blind Retribution
Arrigo Frusta wrote the screenplay and Giovanni Vitrotti photographed it for Ambrosio in Turin. Italian pages and the Wikimedia file call the picture Sogno di un tramonto d'autunno. The catalog title in English is A Blind Retribution.
Themes
Background
D'Annunzio's tragedy, the source of the short, was published in 1898 and is set in the Doge's household.
Look
Giovanni Vitrotti shot the Ambrosio short. The surviving Museo copy is a Desmetcolor restoration of a tinted print.
Preservation
The Museo Nazionale del Cinema holds the print restored by the EYE Filmmuseum: 313 meters, 16 minutes at 18 frames per second, Desmetcolor, German intertitles.
Notes
- The European Film Gateway also lists the German title Der Fluch eines betrogenen Weibes and the English title An Autumn Sunset Dream.
- The Museo Nazionale del Cinema print, restored by the EYE Filmmuseum, is 35mm acetate, 313 meters, Desmetcolor, with German intertitles.
- The Italian Wikipedia lists both 16 minutes 28 seconds and 309 meters.
- Names on that page include Antonietta Calderari, Mary Cleo Tarlarini, Mario Voller-Buzzi, Helena Makowska, Gigetta Morano, and Oreste Grandi.
Scenes
- Schiavona's ritual ends in a glare on the river as the lovers' ship burns.
Influenced by
- Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1898 tragedy Sogno d'un tramonto d'autunno
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Sogno di un tramonto d'autunno (1911).webm)
