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Cajus Julius Caesar (1914 Film)

aka: Julius Caesar Caio Guilio Cesare

Director

Enrico Guazzoni

Subject

Drama

Feature film. The story of Julius Caesar with just occasional borrowings from Shakespeare’s play. Filmed in the traditional Italian spectacular tradition the plot covers a good deal of Caesar’s life and...

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Marcantonio e Cleopatra (1913 Film)

aka: Antony and Cleopatra

Director

Enrico Guazzoni

Subject

Drama

Feature film loosely based on Shakespeare’s play which was praised for its lavish costumes, spectacular sets, and ambitious special effects.

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Brutus (1911 Film)

aka: Brutus

Director

Enrico Guazzoni

Subject

Drama

Fiction short based on Julius Caesar which largely follows the main events of the play from the death of Caesar to the death of Brutus. Guazzoni remade the story for Cines in 1914 for the feature length...

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Amleto (1910 Film)

Director

Mario Caserini

Subject

Drama

Abbreviated version of the play directed by Mario Caserini with Amleto Novelli as Hamlet.

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Racconto d’Inverno (1910 Film)

aka: Winter’s Tale, The

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Presumed a lost film.

A version of The Winter’s Tale. Cines’ press material reads ‘a magnificent series of pictures dealing with episodes in Shakespeare’s wonderful tragedy. Acted in the most perfect manner, amid scenes...

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Macbeth (1909 Film)

Director

Mario Caserini

Subject

Drama

Silent version of Macbeth presented as an historical spectacle and directed by Mario Caserini with Dante Capelli and Maria Gasperini as the Macbeths. Contemporary accounts speak of ‘very fine tableaux’...

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Amleto (1908 Film)

aka: Hamlet

Subject

Drama

Fiction short. A version of Hamlet.

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Romeo e Giuletta (1908 Film)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Subject

Drama

Fiction short. Version of Romeo and Juliet.

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Othello (1907 Film)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Presumed a lost film.

A version of Othello. Ball (op cit, p. 306) notes that the naming of the director as Mario Caserini and the actor Ubaldo Del Colle as Othello is speculative. The Walturdaw Animated Pictures catalogue (the...

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