Tragedia Alla Corte di Sicilia, Una

Alternative title

Winter’s Tale, The Lost Princess, The Novella d’Inverno: Una Novella di Shakespeare

Synopsis

Abbreviated version of The Winter’s Tale. William Shakespeare reads the play to some friends. The story is largely the plot of the play but Autolycus is omitted and there is no pursuit of a bear. McKernan & Terris (op cit) note ‘Hermione is shown to be seemingly dead and not a statue, an unfortunate omission as it would have been an ideal gesture for a silent cinema version’.

Country

Italy

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1914

Duration

32 mins; 2,900 feet

Credits

Director

Baldassare Negroni

Cast

V. Cocchi	Leontes, King of Sicily
Pina Fabbri	Paulina

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Winter’s Tale, The

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

The copy in the BFI National Archive is the British 1919 re-issue.

History

The film is included in PLAY ON! released by the BFI in 2016.

Reviews

Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (pp. 170-6, 347). Ball details the plot and intertitles.
McKernan, Luke and Olwen Terris. Walking Shadows: Shakespeare in the National Film and Television Archive. London: BFI, 1994 (p. 179-80).

Production Company

Name

Milano Films

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

Web

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Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7436 0165

Address

21 Stephen Street
London
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Distributor

Name

Retail outlets