Ladro di pane
Stealing Bread(1910)
Production: Cines – Original lenght: 174 m – Lenght: 160 m – Intertitles: Spanish – Availability date: 04/1910

Cast: Maria Gasparini, Ettore Pesci, Amleto Novelli

The film:

“Two unfortunates, father and son, fail in their attempts to beg, and, driven by hunger, steal a loaf of bread from a baker’s. The father is arrested and the Commissioner, seeking to discover whether the theft was indeed effected as a result of poverty, visits the hovel lived in by the thief’s family. Faced with the great squalor, he is moved and decides to help the unfortunate family.”

[Cines, Catalogo delle films al 1° gennaio 1911]

 

The film restoration:

The preservation of Ladro di pane is part of a project to valorize the collection of Italian silent films conserved at the Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona; the project is promoted by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and by the Cineteca del Friuli of Gemona. A dupe negative was printed - using the wetgate option - from a 160-meter-long black and white/color nitrate print with Spanish intertitles from Jordi Farran’s collection. The colors were reproduced using the Desmet method.

The restoration was carried out in September 2007 at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna.

 

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