Giovanni Pastrone
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Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco, was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician. He worked during the era of the silent film and influenced ma
Giovanni Pastrone in the 1910s
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The Fall of Troy (film)
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The Fall of Troy is a 1911 Italian silent short film directed by Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto. It is the first known cinematographic adaptation of Homer's epic poem, the Iliad.
Giovanni Pastrone
…Pastrone personally directed several films, including Il Conte Ugolino (1909), Agnes Visconti (1909), and most notably the 30-minute silent film The Fall of Troy (1910), the first known cinematographic adaptation of Homer's epic poem, the Iliad. A pioneering "early colossal" film, The Fall of Troy is noted for…
Helena and Paris in La caduta di Troia 1911