(Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei)

Content: Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption. Adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s love story, the film was innovative in its special effects and an early major box-office hit. A beautiful tinted restoration print was prepared using photochemical processes by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale in the mid-1990s and the premiere screening of the restoration print was held in the amphitheatre in Pompeii, followed by a screening at the major restoration festival ‘Il Cinema Ritrovato’ in Bologna in 1998.

Countries:

Italy

Genres:

History

Runtime:

196 minutes

Year:

1926

Directors:

Carmine Gallone

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Production companies:

Società Italiana Grandi Films

Actors:

Glauco

Ione

Nydia

Arbace

Caleno

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