Maciste alpino
feature film, 1916
DIRECTED BY: Luigi Maggi
CAST:
artolomeo Pagano,
Marussia Allesti,
Luigi Romano Borgnetto
Synopsis:
A soldier, fighting in the WW I, possesses incredible strength. While
fighting in the World War, he also fights a private war trying to save a girl
from a castle where she is imprisoned... This is a successful film by the tandem Luigi Maggi and Giovani Pastrone, in
which, due to the contemporary war euphoria, Pastrone’s Roman hero from the film
Cabiria, became a modern Italian soldier.
b/w, 85 min