Giovanni Vitrotti Movies

An adaptation of Balzac's La Grande Bretêche

Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection.

Early special effects film in which a woman throws a basket of flowers in the air, upon which the flowers create different shapes and figures and...

Il Fiacre n. 13, from the novel of the same title by Xavier Henri Aymon Perrin, Count of Montépin, a highly prolific and much-loved author...

The mighty King of Babylon falls in love with a beautiful girl, ruthlessly tears her away from her lover, who is left wounded upon the ground, and...

The Merry Farmer is based on the 1907 operetta of the same name.

The Queen of Nineveh plots with Prince Canach to destroy the King. Hidden behind a curtain they see the King drink poisoned wine. The High Priest...

Italian silent film

While making fun of the frailty of an old lady in the street, a little devil is immediately taken home by the offended policeman who catches him...

Fricot is sent out to buy a bottle of horse medicine. Fricot drinks it himself, and begins acting like a horse.

A cruel game between the disdainful Kunigund and the passionate Delorges.

During the carnival in Pont Canavese a polenta is prepared in the square and the whole town finds itself rejoicing around the stage and the big pot....

A woman says good evening through moving flowers in stop motion animation.

It was traditional for picture house screenings to begin with a short welcoming sketch, this one featured Lydia De Robertis writing Good Evening on a...