Francesca Bertini
Birthday: 1892-04-10
Place of Birth: Prato, Tuscany, Italy
Biography: Francesca Bertini (born Elena Seracini Vitiello; 5 January 1892 – 13 October 1985) was an Italian silent film actress. She was one of the most successful silent film stars in the first quarter of the twentieth-century.
Movies
1900
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...
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Mariute
The actress Francesca Bertini, as every diva worthy of her name, always arrives on the set extremely...
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L'orgoglio
A menaced politic leaves his child with another family who will raise her unaware of her true origin...
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L'ira
Elena and Zefor are brothers. They live with their mother in a wild country where smuggling reigns. ...
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Salomé
Based on Oscar Wilde's version of the story, what is noteworthy is the sheer luxury of the productio...
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You Belong to Me
The frenetic pace of the edit was intended to match the action, based on Article 635 of the criminal...
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The Lady of the Camellias
La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provin...
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Una ragazza di Praga
A woman from Czechoslovakia escapes her homeland after the occupation by the armies of Warsaw pact t...
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Pierrot the Prodigal
A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario...
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The Poison Mood
The dramatic events of the composer Mario Sirchi, falsely accused of murder, and his girlfriend Adon...
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Blue Blood
The Princess of Monte Cabello is divorced and is granted custody of her beloved daughter. Her ex-hus...
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Diana, the Enchantress
Diana is assigned to find out the details of the enemy's war tactics. Together with her partner in c...
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The Masked Amazon
Silent adventure film in which a horse riding woman has to save her husband from prison in a enemy c...
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The Suitcase of Dreams
A former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction uses them to set up...
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The Clemenceau Affair
The Clemenceau Affair (Italian: Il processo Clémenceau) is a 1917 silent Italian adventure film dire...
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Venomous Tongues
Charles Raleigh is a cousin of Miss Clara Burton, and is secretly in love with her. She returns his ...
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The Merchant of Venice
With a friend desperate for money, a merchant takes out a loan from a ruthless money-lender. Confide...
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Cabiria
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
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La Ferita
Raymonde (Bertini) has had a passionate affair with Giacomo (Giorgio Bonaiti) and has a son with him...
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Gluttony
Glotonia and Frescalia are neighbor Ducal lands. In Glotonia everyone is fond of food. Young countes...
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Assunta Spina
Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina sta...
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The Last Diva
Documentary in which 94 year-old Francesca Bertini recalls her life and career while attending a scr...
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Bellissime
Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women dur...
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La Femme d'une nuit
A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spend...
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Ivonne, la bella danzatrice
Ivonne is a vulgar, loose, promiscuous and a passionate danseuse at the tavern. Countess Edith is an...
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L'avarizia
Maria and Luigi love each other in spite of their poverty, while she resists her many wealthy suitor...
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Diva Dolorosa
In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyri...
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La contessa Sara
Sara is a very beautiful gypsy. One fine day, she meets a rich English woman, to whom she strangely ...
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Shattered Idol
"Idolo infranto is a fantastic way to appreciate Francesca Bertini in the mood for cruelty. From a t...
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Consuelita
Consuelita, a young woman who longs to escape the harsh conditions of her small fishing village, is ...
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Dora la espía
Dora, daughter of the Marchioness of Río Zares, marries the politician Andrés. Despondent, Countess ...
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Beatrice
It tells the story of Dante Alighieri's love to Beatrice Portinari, loosely based on Dante's poetry....
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Maddalena Ferat
Madeleine is a beautiful married woman, hopelessly attracted to her former lover, Jacques. This obse...
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Il Trovatore
A film based on the drama of the same name by Antonio Gutiérrez, which formed the basis for Giuseppe...
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