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    Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (13 September 1883 – 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter...
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    caduta di Troia) is a 1911 Italian silent short film directed by Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto. It is the first known cinematographic...
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    of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years...
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    Cabiria (category Films directed by Giovanni Pastrone)
    Cabiria is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during...
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  • Griffith Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo...
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    recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d'Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from...
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  • 1961), television presenter. Carlo Parola (1921–2000), footballer. Giovanni Pastrone (1883–1959), director. Giuseppe Patrucco (born 1932), retired footballer...
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  • Francesco Pasinetti Pier Paolo Pasolini Uberto Pasolini Sergio Pastore Giovanni Pastrone Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Livio Pavanelli Pier Ludovico Pavoni Riccardo...
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    of the first Italian films were aired in Turin. Examples include Giovanni Pastrone Cabiria, in 1914, one of the first blockbusters in history. The Turin-based...
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    the first film adaptation of a Salgari novel. Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone bears many similarities to Emilio Salgari's 1908 adventure novel Cartagine...
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