Didone abbandonata
About Didone abbandonata
After seven years of travel, a storm wrecks Aeneas and the Trojans on the African coast. Amazons take them to Dido, queen of Carthage, who falls in love with him. She rejects Iarbas, king of Numidia, when he comes to marry her. Anchises appears to Aeneas in a dream and orders him to leave and found Rome. Aeneas sails in secret while Iarbas's army surrounds the city.
Cast & crew
More about Didone abbandonata
Luigi Maggi directed. Arrigo Frusta wrote the screenplay. Italian Wikipedia names Virgil as the subject. Giovanni Vitrotti photographed it. Ambrosio produced it. Italian Wikipedia gives 319 meters, a parenthetical 12 minutes, and a separate duration line of 13 minutes 29 seconds. Wikidata says 13 minutes. The catalog year is 1910. Alberto Capozzi, Mirra Principi, Mario Voller-Buzzi, Paolo Azzurri, Oreste Grandi, Giuseppe Gray, and Gigetta Morano are billed. The Italian page does not assign the roles.
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Giovanni Vitrotti shot the Ambrosio short.
Notes
- Italian Wikipedia also lists Ercole Vaser, Ernesto Vaser, Enrico Negro, Romilde Nigra, and Norina Rasero.
- The length is given as 319 meters.
Scenes
- Amazons lead the wrecked Trojans to Dido.
- Dido turns Iarbas away.
- Aeneas sails while the Numidian army surrounds Carthage.
Influenced by
- Virgil's Aeneid
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Didone abbandonata (1910).webm)
