Love Everlasting
About Love Everlasting
In the Grand Duchy of Wallenstein, adventurer Moise Sthar courts Elsa Holbein so he can steal her father Colonel Julius Holbein's fortification plans. Julius is accused and kills himself. Elsa is exiled to the Riviera, sings and plays the piano as Diana Candouleur, and becomes a success for the impresario Schaudard. She and Prince Maximilian, the grand duke's heir, fall in love. On a boat on Lake Maggiore, Sthar, rejected again, spreads the story in Wallenstein. Colonel Theubner is sent to bring the prince home. Maximilian finds Elsa during a performance of La Dame aux Camélias. She has taken real poison and dies in his arms, saying that her love does not die.
Cast & crew
More about Love Everlasting
Mario Caserini directed the film in Turin for Gloria Film. Emiliano Bonetti and G. Monleone wrote it. Lyda Borelli, in her first film, plays Elsa. Mario Bonnard plays Prince Maximilian and Gianpaolo Rosmino plays Moise Sthar. Vittorio Rossi Pianelli plays Colonel Holbein, Dante Cappelli the grand duke, and Maria Caserini the grand duchess.
Themes
Look
Angelo Scalenghe photographed the Gloria Film production in Turin.
Notes
- The Italian title is Ma l'amor mio non muore.
- Camillo De Riso plays Schaudard and Emilio Petacci plays Colonel Theubner.
- Treccani's plot has Maximilian in Locarno to recover from an illness, and places the boat trip on the lake at Locarno, which is Lake Maggiore.
- Wikipedia lists 90 minutes. The file on Wikimedia Commons runs 1 hour, 11 minutes, and 38 seconds.
- Borelli's work in this film is the appearance writers cite when they call her the first diva of the cinema.
Scenes
- Colonel Holbein kills himself after the stolen plans are blamed on him.
- Sthar meets Elsa and the prince again on the Lake Maggiore boat.
- Elsa dies in Maximilian's arms during the last scene of La Dame aux Camélias, having taken real poison.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Love Everlasting (1913).webm)
Quotes
Ma l'amor mio non muore!
