Ninì Dinelli

Early, proto giallo set in a boarding house for girls.

Based on the famous historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, and set between 1628 and 1630 in Lombardy, Northern Italy, during the Spanish domination, the film displays the marriage between two young textile workers, Renzo and Lucia. The 1922 version is one of the most ambitious and spectacular films in all Italian silent cinema, with remarkable mass scenes and some images that sparked controversy.

A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.