Cainà
About Cainà
Cainà (Maria Jacobini), a girl in a Sardinian village, is promised to the shepherd Agostineddu and still stares at the sea. On a feast day she hides on the ship of Captain Pietro (Carlo Benetti). He finds her in the hold; during a storm she kisses him and goes to his house, where his sisters want her thrown out. When he presses her again she boards a ship home. Her father Giantolu has died in the storm and her mother is paralyzed. The village curses her, Agostineddu hits her with a stone, and she dies on the rocks.
Cast & crew
More about Cainà
Gennaro Righelli directed and wrote the screenplay. Maria Jacobini and Adriano Piacitelli supplied the story. Censorship visa 16773 is dated 28 February 1922. The original length on that record is 1,295 meters. Società Anonima Stefano Pittaluga distributed the film. Tullio Chiarini is credited as photographer.
Themes
Reviews
P. Amerio, in Rivista Cinematografica for December 1923, wrote that Maria Jacobini played Cainà as a restless wanderer.
Look
Tullio Chiarini photographed the Gallura exteriors, including the nuraghi and the villages between Aggius and Bortigiadas, and the interiors made at Fert's Turin studios.
Notes
- The public premiere in Rome was on 2 June 1922.
- Ida Carloni Talli plays the mother. A performer billed as sig. Carmi plays Giantolu. Eugenio Duse is also in the cast.
- The full title used in Italy was Cainà, ovvero l'isola e il continente.
- Gianni Olla has placed the exteriors mainly between Aggius and Bortigiadas, in Gallura, with nuraghi and village festivals in the footage.
- Interiors were shot at the Fert Studios in Turin.
- Jacobini and Righelli married in 1925, three years after the film.
Scenes
- Cainà hides in Pietro's ship after the village festival.
- She bites Pietro's arm to get out of his embrace, then bandages the wound.
- Back in Sardinia she finds her name spelled in stones, Agostineddu's work, before he strikes her.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-cain)
