Oreste Gherardini

In the beautifully coloured Phèdre, we witness how the Greek queen Fedra takes revenge on her stepson Hippolytus after he rejects her advances. The lead role is played by Italia Vitaliani, cousin of the famed Eleonora Duse and herself a prominent stage actress. Eye previously rediscovered and restored her once-lost film La madre (1917).

The story of Sapho is laid in the Grecian era and Sapho is depicted as a wealthy woman of that period who has a host of admirers and a still greater host of maid servants who worship her.