Mario Caserini Movies

Well-respected Pompeiian Glaucus performs an act of kindness by purchasing Nydia, a blind slave being mistreated by her owner. Nydia falls in love...

An eight-minute fragment of this Italian Golden Age film survives.

Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection.

An Italian movie about Othello.

A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.

A selection of Hamlet’s most famous scenes are reproduced in this Italian production from 1910.

Grand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the Chief of the General Staff. After a spy named Moise...

A melodrama about a female lion tamer who has an extramarital relationship with a distinguished gentleman, and then moves in with him. When she later...

“Madame Tallien” (1916) depicts the libertine life and loves of the eponymous decadent aristocrat, an important activist who was ahead of...

Italian silent film Victory or Death, directed by Caserini. An early crime thriller, the plot revolves around the Countess Alberti -- played by Berta...

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

The play opens with the scene on the wild heath where the three witches appear to Macbeth and Banquo, as they are returning from their victorious...

Pisa, 11th century. Spina, a young priestess daughter of Peter, is devoted to keeping a flame burning that illuminates the way back for those...

A woman and a mistress fight.

This story first takes you to Misslimeri, a little Sicilian village, and into the home of Don Ruggero, a wealthy landowner. Don Ruggero is an...