Tigre reale

Tigre reale

Pina Menichelli as Contessa Natka
Directed by Giovanni Pastrone
Written by Giovanni Verga
Based on Tigre reale
by Giovanni Verga
Cinematography Segundo de Chomón, Giovanni Tomatis
Production
company
Itala Film
Release dates
  • November 9, 1916 (1916-11-09)
Running time
 80 minutes
Country Italy
Language Silent film with
Italian intertitles

Tigre reale (The royal tigress) is a 1916 silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone under the name Piero Fosco, adapting the eponymous 1875 novel by Giovanni Verga.[1]

Plot

Giorgio La Ferlita, Italian diplomat in Paris, falls in love during a reception with the Russian countess Natka, who is told to have led to death her former lover.

Once they have become lovers, she tells him about her past. She was unhappily married, and fell in love with another man named Dolski. When her husband discovered their affair, he had his rival confined in Siberia. Natka followed Dolski in Siberia, but when she finally found him, she discovered that he was with another woman. She ran away and refused to see him any more. Desperate, he committed suicide in front of her door.

After telling Ferlita her story, the countess dismisses him and disappears. After searching in vain during a few months, the diplomat decides to marry the rich Erminia. During his engagement party, he receives a letter from Natka, asking him to join her at a hotel. He leaves the party and comes to her room to find that she has taken a poison and is shaken by convulsions. A short-circuit sets the hotel on fire and her husband, mad with jealousy, locks them in the room. They manage to escape by jumping out of the window while her husband is killed in the fire.

Cast

Production

The film was produced by Itala Film, the company created by Carlo Rossi and Giovanni Pastrone, alias Piero Fosco.

Release dates

IMDb

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Review, synopsis and link to watch the film: "A cinema history". Retrieved 12 June 2014.
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