L'innamorata
About L'innamorata
At a club, Mara Flores (Italia Almirante-Manzini) meets the engineer Carlo Valderi (Alberto Collo), who falls in love with her and spends himself into ruin. Carlo works at a power plant with Franco Arnaldi (Annibale Betrone); Franco's sister Orietta loves Carlo, but Mara drops him and he kills himself. Franco, who had recoiled from her, gives in, and he fights a duel over her. Orietta and her mother blame Mara for his ruin. She decides to take her own life.
Cast & crew
More about L'innamorata
Gennaro Righelli directed from a story by Augusto Genina for Fert, the company Enrico Fiori had just opened in Rome and Turin. This was Fert's first film. The censors refused the working title L'orizzontale on 1 February 1920 (visa 14727) and passed it only after the title was changed and scenes they called too sensual, plus vulgar words in the titles, were cut. Ubaldo Arata photographed it. Giulio Lombardozzi designed the sets.
Themes
Reviews
Carlo Fischer, writing in La Cine-fono on 22 January 1921, described the film as a screen version of Augusto Genina's L'orizzontale, with the action centered on Mara Flores.
Preservation
The Cineteca di Bologna holds a 35mm preservation print, tinted and toned, struck from a nitrate positive at the Cinemateca Brasileira. It runs 53 minutes 59 seconds at 16 frames per second, against an original length of 1,640 meters.
Notes
- The premiere was at the Salone Ghersi in Turin on 22 March 1920.
- In Italy the film also went out with the subtitle Mara Flores. In Brazil it was Em casa de Mara Flores. The English title was Payment in Full.
- Alfonso Cassini plays the Prince. Franz Sala plays one of Mara's suitors. Maria Gaudenzi plays Orietta Arnaldi.
- The original length was 1,640 meters. The Bologna preservation print runs 971 meters.
- A 2025 Giornate del Cinema Muto catalog notes that the picture opened a Fert series built around Almirante-Manzini, followed by Zingari (1920), I tre amanti (1921), and Il fango e le stelle (1921).
Scenes
- Carlo, ruined, kills himself after Mara leaves him.
- Franco comes home from the duel to find Orietta and their mother accusing Mara.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-payment-in-full)
