Mario Caserini Movies

An Italian movie about Othello.

A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.

This story first takes you to Misslimeri, a little Sicilian village, and into the home of Don Ruggero, a wealthy landowner. Don Ruggero is an...

Based on the celebrated novel by Alessandro Manzoni, "The Betrothed", the film tells the passage of Lucia being sent on an errand by the Nun of...

A woman and a mistress fight.

In Renaissance Rome, young Beatrice Cenci dares to defy her tyrannical father. Imprisoned, abused, and betrayed, she plots her father's murder with...

An Italian adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

A short Italian melodrama about the tragic life of an adulterous lion tamer.

The daring Countess Blanche Alberti spends the film in hot pursuit of a spy posing as a count who stole her father’s secret documents-- after...

Grand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the Chief of the General Staff. After a spy named Moise...

Silent film directed by Mario Caserini for the Società Italiana Cines in 1908. It should not be confused, as is often the case, with the film...

A selection of Hamlet’s most famous scenes are reproduced in this Italian production from 1910.

Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection.

19th century Sardou period melodrama turned into a vehicle for diva star Lyda Borelli: an aristocratic French lady leaves her unfaithful husband and...