La sposa del Nilo
La sposa del Nilo

La sposa del Nilo

La sposa del Nilo

Release date : 1911-06-10

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Status : Released

Durasi : 17 Min.

Popularity : 0.0441

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La Sposa del Nilo (1911) was a proto-epic, where you could sense the Italian filmmakers (Enrico Guazzoni in this case) gearing up to the gigantic imaginings of Cabiria and Quo Vadis just a few years on. The film wanted to impress you with its stateliness and scale; at time the central action (a young virgin is drowned to appease Isis and ensure that the Nile floods) became lost in the crowded frame – but that just reminded you that early cinema audiences look that much more intently at what was going on, and picked up on details that our lazier eyes sometimes miss.