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Dir: Carmine Gallone

Based on Théophile Gautier's novel of the same name, the film tells of the tragic love affair of Ottavio de Saville. He falls madly in love with Madame Prascovie Labinska, a woman very faithful to her husband, the Polish count Olaf Labinski. Alarmed by the growing physical and mental weariness of the desperate young man, his relatives and friends decide to turn to Doctor Balthazar, who has just returned from a trip to the Indies where he was initiated into the secrets of Brahman.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Malombra perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A young woman living in a castle reads letters written by her ancestor and comes to believe that she is the returned spirit of a former aristocrat who once live there.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.

Dir: Louis J. Gasnier

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Captain January perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.

Dir: Mikhail Fokine

The last moments in the life of a swan.

Dir: James A. FitzPatrick

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Dying Swan perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A Scots lass parts regretfully from her lad as he goes to make his mark in the world. The lad meets an old man who warns him against leaving his beloved. He returns to her and they are married. Then the old man, who loves the girl's mother, asks that she be his wife. Thereafter another marriage is arranged.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

Grazia de Plessans abandons her studies in a convent following a mystical crisis. In her paternal house, she studies music together with maestro Claudio Morillot with whom she ends up falling in love.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Songs of Scotland perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Lyda is a prostitute with no education and no hope for the future. Unfortunately, this ungrateful job leads her to have an unwanted pregnancy, and once born the child abandons her.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

Epic, melodramatic and rather risque adaptation of the British novel about ancient Roman decadence, culminates in the eruption of a nearby volcano.

Dir: Carmine Gallone

An historical epic on the life and myths surrounding Maria Magdalene.