Ma l’amor mio non muore! Love Everlasting(1913) Director: Mario Caserini –
Director of photography: Angelo Scalenghe –
Production: Film Artistica “Gloria”, Torino –
Original lenght: 2600m –
Lenght: 1600m –
Intertitles: Italian –
Censorship certificate: 1462, 1/12/1913 –
Première: /10/1913 –
Cast: Lyda Borelli (Elsa Holbein/Diana Cadouleur), Mario Bonnard (il principe/Prince Massimiliano), Vittorio Rossi Pianelli (il colonnello/Colonel Julius), Emilio Petacci (il colonnello/Colonel Theubner), Camillo de Riso (l’impresario/manager Schaudard), Gian Paolo Rosmino (Moise Stahr), Dante Cappelli (il Granduca di/Grand Duke of Wallenstein), Maria Caserini Gasparini (la Granduchessa di/Grand Duchess ok Wallenstein), Antonio Monti (un generale/a general), Gentile Miotti, Letizia Quaranta, Felice Metellio
The film:
The essence of love, elegance and beauty in Italy in the Early Twentieth Century. The first appearance on the big screen of the “goddess” Lyda Borelli and also the masterpiece of the director Mario Caserini.
The film restoration:
The digital restoration of Ma l’amor mio non muore! was carried out by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and with the participation of Cineteca Nazionale -CSC, and it was based on the camera negative deposited at Fondazione Cineteca Italiana di Milano. The font of the titles and the intertitles was based on a nitrate posive conserved at Cineteca Nazionale - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Roma. The intertitles missing from the copy in Rome have been edited on the basis of the posters and the brochures of that time preserved by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino. The non original intertitles, marked with the initials R-11, have been inserted following the editing directions of the original negative, and an hypothesis of the division of the acts has been restored.
The restoration was carried out in 2013 at L'Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna.
The Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna published a DVD of the restored film.
