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