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Giuseppe de Liguoro (1869–1944) was an Italian actor and film director of the silent era. He came from an aristocratic Neapolitan family. De Liguoro was a pioneering figure of early Italian cinema, making a number of historical films in the early 1910s such as L'Inferno (1911) and Mary Tudor (1911).
Giuseppe de Liguoro was born on 10 January 1869 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for Dante's Inferno (1911), Homer's Odyssey (1911) and Re Lear (1910). He died on 19 March 1944 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Dante's Inferno: Directed by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro. With Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Pier Delle Vigne. Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.
Giuseppe de Liguoro (1869–1944) was an Italian actor and film director of the silent era. He came from an aristocratic neapolitan family. De Liguoro was a pioneering figure of early Italian cinema, making a number of historical films in early 1910s such as L'Inferno (1911) and Mary Tudor (1911).
Giuseppe de Liguoro as Il conte Ugolino; Augusto Milla as Lucifer; Attilio Motta; Emilise Beretta; Production. L'Inferno's depictions of Hell closely followed those in the engravings of Gustave Doré for an edition of the Divine Comedy, which were familiar to an international audience, and employed several special effects.
Born in Naples on January 10, 1869, Giuseppe de Liguoro is credited with creating historical, epic films that reached beyond the borders of his country. Among the iconic silent films he directed during the second decade of the 1900s are "L'Inferno" and "L'Odissea" (Homer's Odyssey), which were both made in 1911.
Giuseppe De Liguoro di Presicce è stato un regista e attore italiano del cinema muto agli inizi della cinematografia.
Jul 8, 2021 · Like Griffith, the makers of L’Inferno — Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan and Giuseppe de Liguoro – sought to raise cinema to the ranks of literature and theater.
Mar 4, 2014 · “The Italian epic came of age with Giuseppe de Liguoro’s imaginative silent version of the Inferno, loosely adapted from Dante and inspired by the illustrations of Gustave Doré. L’Inferno was first screened in Naples in the Teatro Mercadante 10 March 1911.
Jun 20, 2012 · In L’Inferno (1911), director Giuseppe de Liguoro uses the new medium of film, along with pioneering special effects, to create a truly shocking depiction of hell. The dead disappear and reappear and demons fly through the sky as Dante and his companion Virgil make their way through the circles.
