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Director:
Giovanni Pastrone
Writers:
Gabriele D'Annunzio (titles)
Titus Livius (book)
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Release Date:
1 June 1914 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Adventure | Drama | War See more »
Tagline:
1200 - Scenes - 1200 (original ad) See more »
Plot:
Three centuries before Christus. Young Cabiria is kidnapped by some pirates during one eruption of the Etna... See more » | Add synopsis »
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Fascinating early feature film epic worth a look See more (18 total) »

Cast

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Carolina Catena ... Cabiria da piccola / as a Child (as Catena)
Lidia Quaranta ... Cabiria, also called Elissa
Gina Marangoni ... Croessa, Cabiria's Nurse
Dante Testa ... Karthalo, the High Priest
Umberto Mozzato ... Fulvio 'Fulvius' Axilla
Bartolomeo Pagano ... Maciste, Axilla's Slave
Raffaele di Napoli ... Bodastoret, the Innkeeper
Emilio Vardannes ... Hannibal
Edoardo Davesnes ... Hasdrubal
Italia Almirante-Manzini ... Sophonisba, Hasdrubal's Daughter
Alessandro Bernard ... Siface 'Syphax', King of Cirta
Luigi Chellini ... Scipione 'Scipio', the Consul
Vitale Di Stefano ... Massinissa, the Numidian King
Enrico Gemelli ... Archimede
Ignazio Lupi ... Arbace
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Francesca Bertini
Giuseppe Ferrari
Soava Gallone
Domenico Gambino
Pina Menichelli
Felice Minotti
Amedeo Mustacchi
Fido Schirru
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Directed by
Giovanni Pastrone 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Gabriele D'Annunzio  titles
Titus Livius  book
Giovanni Pastrone 
Emilio Salgari  novel

Produced by
Giovanni Pastrone .... producer
 
Original Music by
Manlio Mazza 
Ildebrando Pizzetti 
 
Cinematography by
Augusto Battagliotti 
Eugenio Bava 
Natale Chiusano 
Segundo de Chomón 
Carlo Franzeri 
Giovanni Tomatis 
 
Special Effects by
Eugenio Bava .... special effects technician
Segundo de Chomón .... special effects
 
Music Department
Jacques Gauthier .... musician: piano (1990 alternate version)
 
Other crew
Charles Affron .... presenter (1990 alternate version)
Charles Affron .... translator: intertitles (1990 alternate version)
Mirella Jona Affron .... presenter (1990 alternate version)
Mirella Jona Affron .... translator: intertitles (1990 alternate version)
 

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Runtime:
148 min | 125 min (1990 alternate version) | USA:123 min (Kino Restored Print) | 162 min (1995 restoration) | 181 min (16 fps) (2006 restoration)
Country:
Italy
Language:
Italian
Color:
Black and White (tinted)
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Silent
Filming Locations:
FERT Studios, Turin, Piedmont, ItalySee more »
Company:
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Celebrity writer Gabriele D'Annunzio was originally hired by Pastrone to write the screenplay. After long delays Pastrone and his assistant went to Paris, where D'Annunzio lived at the time, to excite him into action. More time passed, and the director's patience grew thinner and thinner, and in the end D'Annunzio merely rewrote in poetic prose the titles Pastrone prepared.See more »
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14 out of 16 people found the following review useful.
Fascinating early feature film epic worth a look, 9 May 2002
Author: Arne Andersen from Putney, VT

It is a little known fact that the feature film was born in Italy - that is, a film longer than the standard one or two reels in length -ten to twenty minutes. It is the crop of early Italian features, all epics, birthed in 1914, that influenced America's Griffith and DeMille. The length of CABIRIA is staggering - originally 2-1/2 hours in Italy and just over two hours here - considering most audiences were used to sitting and concentrating on a plot for only twenty minutes at most.

Were there Oscars then, the extraordinary art direction and special effects would have garnered noms - they are outstanding. The cinematography is unique in using early scanning and dollying techniques heretofore unknown in film. The plot becomes very hard to follow because the title cards are history lessons of alliances and battles that have little meaning for us and often we are aware of the cut 22 minutes in the surviving USA version as symbols and relationships which have great dramatic meaning for the players leave us baffled.

The print used by Kino and Grapevine video as well as Turner Classic Movies is impeccable - crystal clear and sharp.

For all fans of epic movies and for all film historians, this is a must see.

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