La Moglie di Claudio

1918 DramaHistory 70 minutes (surviving print) Directed by Gero Zambuto

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About La Moglie di Claudio

Cesarina Ruper (Pina Menichelli) shows no grief when her illegitimate child, hidden until then with a pair of peasants, dies. Her husband Claudio (Vittorio Rossi Pianelli) keeps the marriage only for appearances and puts himself into a new cannon for France. Antonino (Alberto Nepoti), a poor young man he raised, works beside him. A secret society hears of the gun and sends a spy, Moncabrè, to seduce Cesarina and take the plans. The struggle over those plans ends in passion and death.

Cast & crew

More about La Moglie di Claudio

Gero Zambuto directed. Piero Fosco, the name Giovanni Pastrone used, supervised. Dante Signorini wrote the screenplay from Alexandre Dumas fils's play La femme de Claude (1873). Segundo de Chomón and Antonio Cufaro photographed it. Itala Film of Turin produced it. Censorship visa 13741 is dated 14 August 1918. The premiere was on 6 December 1918. The original length was 1,789 meters.

Themes

  • a wife who does not mourn
  • a cannon for France
  • a spy sent to seduce her
  • plans stolen through the marriage
  • Cesarina Ruper
  • Claudio
  • Antonino
  • Moncabrè
  • cannon
  • Pina Menichelli

Preservation

The Museo Nazionale del Cinema and the Cineteca di Bologna restored the film in 2011 at L'Immagine Ritrovata, from the Lobster Films nitrate. The new print is Desmetcolor, 1,437 meters.

Notes

  • Gabriel Moreau, Arnaldo Arnaldi, Camillo Talamo, Antonio Monti, Leopoldo Lamari, and signora Sperani are in the cast.
  • The restored picture runs 1,437 meters, 70 minutes at 18 frames per second, with Italian titles.
  • The source nitrate, tinted and toned, with French titles, belonged to Lobster Films in Paris.

Scenes

  • Cesarina stays cold at the death of the child the peasants had been hiding.
  • Moncabrè is sent to get the cannon plans by way of Cesarina.

Influenced by

  • La femme de Claude (1873)