Francesca Bertini Movies

Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.

A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the...

It tells the story of Dante Alighieri's love to Beatrice Portinari, loosely based on Dante's poetry.

The actress Francesca Bertini, as every diva worthy of her name, always arrives on the set extremely late. One day, in the studio, she happened to...

A woman from Czechoslovakia escapes her homeland after the occupation by the armies of Warsaw pact to Italy to tell the tale...

One evening at a ball, Count Georg de Clermont-Latour—a man who places great importance on convention and traditional notions of...

An Italian melodrama. Only the final reel survives.

The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of...

Ivonne is a vulgar, loose, promiscuous and a passionate danseuse at the tavern. Countess Edith is an angelic creature, exquisitely elegant, a finite...

Diana is assigned to find out the details of the enemy's war tactics. Together with her partner in crime, Robertson, she manages to get in touch with...

Documentary in which 94 year-old Francesca Bertini recalls her life and career while attending a screening of Assunta Spina.

"Idolo infranto is a fantastic way to appreciate Francesca Bertini in the mood for cruelty. From a tender shepherdess who inspires sublimely artistic...

Sara is a very beautiful gypsy. One fine day, she meets a rich English woman, to whom she strangely reminds her late daughter. She decides to give...

Directed by Emilio Ghione. Lost film.

The frenetic pace of the edit was intended to match the action, based on Article 635 of the French criminal code stipulating that after 20 years on...

Odette is a 1916 Italian silent drama film based upon the play by Victorien Sardou, directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro, and starring Francesca Bertini,...

Silent adventure film in which a horse riding woman has to save her husband from prison in a enemy country.

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century.