Mario Caserini Movies

Grand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the Chief of the General Staff. After a spy named Moise...

An Italian movie about Othello.

A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.

A selection of Hamlet’s most famous scenes are reproduced in this Italian production from 1910.

The daring Countess Blanche Alberti spends the film in hot pursuit of a spy posing as a count who stole her father’s secret documents-- after...

Based on the celebrated novel by Alessandro Manzoni, "The Betrothed", the film tells the passage of Lucia being sent on an errand by the Nun of...

A woman and a mistress fight.

This story first takes you to Misslimeri, a little Sicilian village, and into the home of Don Ruggero, a wealthy landowner. Don Ruggero is an...

A melodrama about a female lion tamer who has an extramarital relationship with a distinguished gentleman, and then moves in with him. When she later...

19th century Sardou period melodrama turned into a vehicle for diva star Lyda Borelli: an aristocratic French lady leaves her unfaithful husband and...

Well-respected Pompeiian Glaucus performs an act of kindness by purchasing Nydia, a blind slave being mistreated by her owner. Nydia falls in love...

The play opens with the scene on the wild heath where the three witches appear to Macbeth and Banquo, as they are returning from their victorious...

The film, produced by Filoteo Alberini and released in 1909 is a short drama about a young boy who is killed during the Spedizione dei Mille, a...

An Italian adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection.