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Dominican Rep. Rapsodia satanica
- Original title
- Rapsodia satanica
- Year
- 1917
- Running time
- 45 min.
- Country
Italy- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
- Music
- Restored version: Pietro Mascagni (Silent Movie)
- Cinematography
- Giorgio Ricci (B&W)
- Producer
- Genre
- Fantasy. Drama. Mystery. Horror. Romance | Silent Film. Half-length Film
- Synopsis
- Rapsodia Satanica (1915) was the last film directed by Nino Oxilia and is undoubtedly one of the finest achievements of the early Italian cinema. In it, Oxilia spins a variation on the Faust myth, embodied here by the diva Lyda Borelli. Typical of extravagant D'Annunzian aestheticism at its height, Rapsodia Satanica was one of the summits of what was later called the "tail coat film." Diametrically opposed to the "cinema of reality" practiced by Serena, Martoglio and others, "tail coat films" set their melodramatic stories in the salons and villas of the upper middle class and the aristocracy, deploying narrative structures contrived to showcase their actors and especially its actresses. This had the effect of accentuating their physical presence and turning them into stars - probably the first stars in movie history. The success of the "dive" contributed to the development of motion picture grammar in its special use of the close-up.
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