Initial release 1911 | Cinematography Emilio Roncarolo Distributed by Helios Budget 200,000 USD Production company Milano Films | |
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Directed by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan and Giuseppe De Liguoro Starring Giuseppe de Liguoro: OdysseusEugenia Tettoni: PenelopeUbaldo Maria Del Colle Directors Giuseppe de Liguoro, Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan Similar Helena, L'Inferno, Eneide, Ulysses Against the Son of He, The Avenger | ||
L'Odissea is a 1911 Italian silent film, adapted from Homer's Odyssey. The film was made in the context of the world's fair of Turin International in 1911, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, where he launched a film competition for films artistic, scientific and with educational purposes.
Released in 1912 in the United States it was welcomed, in the trade journal The Moving Picture World, the movie was proclaimed as marking "a new epoch in the history of the motion picture as a factory of education".
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