
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe..

Daniel-François Auber, Eugène Scribe, Germain Delavigne, Lois Weber
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There is a moment, roughly seventeen minutes into The Dumb Girl of Portici, when the camera forgets it is tethered to terra firma. It levitates above the teeming Neapolitan quay, ...
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