Must-Watch List in the Vein of Steuerlos: Cult Guide

Dir: Gennaro Righelli

Angelo Musco leaves his small town in Sicily to go to Rome for an operation. Once there, he decides he likes that continental air and proceeds to acquire a veneer of same...and also acquires a dancer, sporting-and-claiming an even-larger dose of Continental Veneer. They return together to Sicily with Musco under the impression she comes from the continent. Leda's clothes, manners, habits and flirting ways start a small revelation-style revolution, which is not to Musco's liking. He ships Leda back to Rome, but not before learning that he has been taken in by a Scilian native, as Leda was born in a near-by town.

Dir: Gennaro Righelli

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of La canzone dell'amore perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Loose Pirandello adaptation: A young lady hides from her fiance that she is caring for a baby half brother left behind by her late mother.The fiance, like her an aspiring musical performer, has indicated he doesn't want a child yet.

Dir: Gennaro Righelli

This picture portrays the terrible assault upon Derna, in which the young Italian captain, Adolfo Bertini, was wounded in the forehead and, after a conflict, fell into the hands of the Arabs. This officer managed to protect a young Arabian girl from insult by the Turks, and thus gained the good will of the tribe to which she belonged. When the cries of the news vendors in Naples announced the capture of Captain Bertini his wife lost her senses from the shock. Eminent alienists proclaimed it a case of mental torpor, which could only be cured upon again seeing her husband. Maria, the little daughter of Captain Bertini, planned to go to Africa to find her father. Her mother did not notice her leave taking because of her condition. She disguised herself as a boy and managed to find a place on a merchant vessel. Her good disposition succeeded in gaining for her the affection of everyone. The father was freed and returned with his daughter to Naples. The presence of her husband and child brought the young woman out of her stupor, and happiness once again reigned in the house.

Dir: Gennaro Righelli

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

In this farce about a new European republic, a peasant yokel is nominated at a convention and thwarts a Royalist plot after he is elected.

Dir: Gennaro Righelli

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Gennaro Righelli

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

Elinor Clifford comes to Northern Africa in search of romance. Her lover, Bobbie Dampsey, and her friend, Daisy Young, arrange with Bobbie's friend, Paul Ferris, who is to pose as Abd-el-Rawak, a notorious brigand, to stage a fake abduction. Elinor is kidnapped, but their plans go astray when the real brigand turns up. After many hazardous adventures, Paul succeeds in rescuing her and winning her love.

Dir: Gennaro Righelli

An old teacher got married with a young girl, the school caretaker's daughter, to save her from the dishonour caused by a guy. However he wants her to stay with her beloved guy....

Dir: Gennaro Righelli

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

Italy's first flying film showed the strides that land had made in aviation, preparing for military action under Fascism.The 3 comrades of the plot have their differences but work together and 2 of them at least find romance back on earth.

Dir: Gennaro Righelli

Remake of the famous novel, "Trilby"

Dir: Gennaro Righelli

Comedy of a man deserting his own impossible family, and comforting a rich widow who sees in him a resemblance to her lost husband.