Il biglietto da mille
About Il biglietto da mille
Mary Cléo Tarlarini and Eleuterio Rodolfi play lovers who are hiding the affair. He courts De Renzi's wife and promises her a thousand-lira note for clothes, then borrows that note from De Renzi himself. He writes to De Renzi that he handed the money to the wife after meeting her in the street. The note then passes from person to person and can give the affair away. De Renzi's wife is not pleased.
More about Il biglietto da mille
Società Anonima Ambrosio produced it in Turin. The director is not named in the filmography. Premiere 2 December 1912. Lengths are listed as 392 metres and 250 metres, timed at 15 minutes. Rodolfi and Tarlarini are the leads. The Museo Nazionale del Cinema holds a tinted nitrate copy with German intertitles, 282 metres, running 15 minutes and 40 seconds, restored in 2009 with the Cineteca di Bologna.
Themes
Preservation
A tinted nitrate with German intertitles survived at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema and was restored in 2009 with the Cineteca di Bologna. The restored copy is 282 metres and runs 15 minutes 40 seconds. It is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The European Film Gateway description calls the thousand-lira note the object that moves from hand to hand and threatens to expose the lovers.
- The Finnish plot, drawn from the period filmography, specifies the loan from De Renzi and the letter about the street meeting.
- Rodolfi often starred in this kind of boulevard comedy and sometimes directed other films. He is not credited as director here.
- The museum copy is Desmetcolor, from a tinted nitrate, with German titles.
Scenes
- He borrows the note from De Renzi after promising it to De Renzi's wife for clothes.
- The same note keeps moving, and the letter claims he only met her in the street.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Il biglietto da mille (1912).webm)