Acting
Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come.
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Among the vertical rockfaces of Saxony athletic Gaston saves the lives of four climbers. Both rescued ladies fall in love with him, one helps finance Gaston's futuristic invention, but the financier is darkly connected with Gaston's fate.
Italian silent film
"Albertini is the champion of Italian athletic cinema. When he’s around, wrongs are righted by way of bold feats. The year 1919 saw him in superb shape. In Sansone e la ladra di atleti he is joined by another sort of hero: Costante Girardengo, the first great champion of Italian cycling." - Andrea Meneghelli
The last silent Frankenstein film. While there is plenty of promotional material proving this film was shown internationally, there is currently no known film print and it is believed lost. A scientist manages to create a man with a chemical formula of his own invention, but the creature rebels against his creator and commits all sorts of disasters until he is reduced to impotence by the baron.
Albertini is the champion of Italian athletic cinema. When he’s around, wrongs are righted by way of bold feats.
An adaptation of Homer's epic Greek poem THE ODYSSEY, this was one of a series of 1920s adventure films starring Luciano Albertini and directed by Max Obal. Albertini goes through a series of acrobatic and life-threatening adventures as he is pursued across city streets while pursuing the love of the woman he loves.
A movie about the biblical episode, the first of the series.
While Sansonia is away shooting a movie in Argentina, villains Markus and Niska plot to kindap his wife and sons back in Italy.
"Albertini is the champion of Italian athletic cinema. When he’s around, wrongs are righted by way of bold feats." - Andrea Meneghelli
Marie, the daughter of a miner, is pregnant and has been abandoned by the father of her child. Taken in and married by a fellow miner, she sees her former lover suddenly reappear and assert his rights over her. A violent altercation then breaks out between the two men in the mine shaft. A gas leak triggers an explosion that buries them. Luciano Albertini performed sensational stunts at dizzying heights, filmed on the cliffs of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains or on imposing railway bridges. The tragic and sensational film culminates in a spectacular climb, a fall, and a rescue operation on the cliffs.
A gentleman trades place with a notorious gangster who's his dead ringer to prevent an evil baron to marry his fiancée.
Early German sound film based on the novel "Lord Spleen" by Ludwig von Wohl. Two stowaways attempt to unravel a plot onboard a steam train.
