Promessi sposi, I
Betrothed, The (1913)
Director: Eleuterio Rodolfi – Production: Società Anonima Ambrosio, Torino – Original lenght: 1800 m (sei atti/six acts)/1587m – Lenght: 1236m – Intertitles: Italian – Censorship certificate: 583, 1/12/1913 – Première: /09/1913 –

Cast: Gigetta Morano (Lucia); Mario Voller-Buzzi (Renzo); Ersilia Scalpellini (Agnese); Bianca Schinini (Perpetua); Umberto Scalpellini (Don Abbondio); Eugenia Tettoni (la Monaca di Monza / Nun of Monza); Antonio Grisanti (l’Innominato / Unnamed); Cesare Zocchi (Fra Cristoforo); Luigi Chiesa (Don Abbondio); Edoardo Rivalta (il cardinale / Cardinal Borromeo)

The film:

"To talk about I Promessi sposi is useless.

Nullum par elogium to this masterpiece, to the glory of Alessandro Manzoni.

We just like to guarantee our friends of the local art, that we scrupulously followed the famous text with chronological and topographic fidelity, with the benefit of the pictorial evidence of every description both of the characters and the space."

 

[Synopsis drawn from the Ambrosio original brochure of “Films Serie d’Oro per il 1913” - Coll. Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino / Online collections: Documents from Torino's era of silent films:

http://www2.museocinema.it/Materialipubblicitari/Materiale_pubblicitario-200_dpi/01R0561988000_P41515_012_m.jpg]

 

The film restoration:

I promessi sposi is a restoration by the CSC-Cineteca Nazionale (Roma) and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, and it was based on a tinted nitrate positive print (1183 meter-long), held by the film archive in Roma. The study of the gaps, the editing, the reconstruction of the missing intertitles and the replacement of those wich were not original, were based on historical documents held by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema. The restored print of I promessi sposi measures 1236 metres, compared with the original length, which measured between 1587 and 1800 metres. The gaps are represented by 10 black frames.

The restoration was carried out, in 2013, with both analogue and 2 K digital techniques by the EuroLab Italia laboratory in Roma.

 



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