An evening at winter’s end: in Veneto, in the countryside of Treviso (in Zero Branco) the farmers have prepared bonfires for the feast of bread and wine, a propitiatory rite for a good year. T...
Costruito quasi interamente con illustrazioni d'epoca commentate dalla voce fuori campo, il film mette in luce i contrasti fra Garibaldi da un lato e Cavour con i Savoia dall'altro. Dopo i primi...
Near the bridges of Valle di Maddaloni (near Caserta), a teacher reads an excerpt from G.C. Abba’s “Noterelle di uno dei Mille” to a group of children. The excerpt is about the battle of t...
Un classico del "diva film" con la coppia romantica Francesca Bertini e Gustavo Serena, basato su un romanzo parzialmente autobiografico di Alexandre Dumas figlio pubblicato nel 1866. Questa sto...
Half a century of history on the pages of the famous comic magazine “Il corriere dei piccoli”.
Parti frammentarie. Dopo i ritratti del principe ereditario Alessandro I di Jugoslavia (Alessandro Karađorđević) e del capo di stato maggiore dell'esercito serbo Petar Bojović, immagini dell...
Film restored in collaboration with Cinémathèque Suisse.
The film is constructed on a contemporary requirement tied to the wartime situation, seeing as Italy had gone to war with Austria in May 1915. At the end of the wedding ceremony the procession o...
Medium shot of Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) standing next to a night stand in a hospital room. In the background is a window with a panoramic view of Brno.
Wide shot of an empty city street with three-storeyed buildings on the right and urban greenery on the left.
Medium shot of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) standing in a half opened door with her hand on the door handle.
Three families on the villiage green after the mobilization. From the left Mrs. Bártová and her son, Bárta (laborer), Janda (smith) and Tomeš (farmer) pledge a loyalty to the idea of Slavonic unit...
Three families on the public green after mobilization. From the left: Mrs. Bártová, Bárta and his son, Janda and his family, Tomeš and his family. Travel packages in the foreground.
After the mobilization: women hold on men and cry. On the left Janda (smith), the second one is Tomeš (farmer).
Farmer Tomeš and his son Jeníček with the oxcart full of straw.
The battle of Zborov: A group of soldiers during the assault.
Draft of the prologue
Preliminary budget
List of costumes and stage properties
Contest for the music to the film
Conditions of screening in Bio Fenix in Prague
Behne, Adolf. „Kino und Geschichtsklitterung.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 1 (1913/1914): 15-17. A.B. beschreibt den historischen Film als Genre, das wie g...