epic &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:epic @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:55:55 +0200 Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5m0c <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Cabiria (1914).png)/div div class="caption" The gigantic entrance to the Temple of Moloch in Carthage. Like the entrance to Luna Park Sydney, it's appearance is based on a hellmouth. DPs: Augusto Battagliotti, Eugenio Bava, Natale Chiusano, Segundo de Chomón, Carlo Franzeri & Giovanni Tomatis./div div class="txt" A temple "Now consummate the sacrifice in your throat of flame, o father and mother, o god and goddess, o father and mother, o father and son, o god and goddess! Voracious creator! Roaring ardent hunger…" ### The world's first epic film and the debut of – the later hugely popular – strongman Maciste. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #GiovanniPastrone #TitusLivius #EmilioSalgari #CarolinaCatena #LidiaQuaranta #GinaMarangoni #DanteTesta #UmbertoMozzato #BartolomeoPagano #ManlioMazza #IldebrandoPizzetti #AugustoBattagliotti #EugenioBava #NataleChiusano #SegundoDeChomón #CarloFranzeri #GiovanniTomatis #Maciste #drama #epic #SilentFilm #adventure #history #BookAdaptation #Italy #1910s/div /section ]]>

Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914)

Dec

5

Cabiria (1914)

The gigantic entrance to the Temple of Moloch in Carthage. Like the entrance to Luna Park Sydney, it's appearance is based on a hellmouth. DPs: Augusto Battagliotti, Eugenio Bava, Natale Chiusano, Segundo de Chomón, Carlo Franzeri & Giovanni Tomatis.

A temple*

“Now consummate the sacrifice in your throat of flame, o father and mother, o god and goddess, o father and mother, o father and son, o god and goddess! Voracious creator! Roaring ardent hunger…”

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #GiovanniPastrone #TitusLivius #EmilioSalgari #CarolinaCatena #LidiaQuaranta #GinaMarangoni #DanteTesta #UmbertoMozzato #BartolomeoPagano #ManlioMazza #IldebrandoPizzetti #AugustoBattagliotti #EugenioBava #NataleChiusano #SegundoDeChomón #CarloFranzeri #GiovanniTomatis #Maciste #drama #epic #SilentFilm #adventure #history #BookAdaptation #Italy #1910s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5m0c Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:40:00 +0100 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang, 1924) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/die-nibelungen-siegfried-1924 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang, 1924)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" dragons/div div class="img" Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)/div div class="caption" Siegfried (Paul Richter), seen from the back, bathing in the blood of the slain dragon. On his left shoulder blade, a linden leaf. DPs: Carl Hoffmann, Günther Rittau & Walter Ruttmann./div div class="txt" Dragons or lizards, January's soul symbol. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #SoulSymbols #dragons #FritzLang #GottfriedHuppertz #RichardWagner #CarlHoffmann #GüntherRittau #WalterRuttmann #GertrudArnold #MargareteSchön #HannaRalph #PaulRichter #TheodorLoos #drama #epic #poem #SilentFilm #Germany #1920s/div /section ]]>

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang, 1924)

Jan

2

dragons

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)

Siegfried (Paul Richter), seen from the back, bathing in the blood of the slain dragon. On his left shoulder blade, a linden leaf. DPs: Carl Hoffmann, Günther Rittau & Walter Ruttmann.

Dragons or lizards, January's soul symbol.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #SoulSymbols #dragons #FritzLang #GottfriedHuppertz #RichardWagner #CarlHoffmann #GüntherRittau #WalterRuttmann #GertrudArnold #MargareteSchön #HannaRalph #PaulRichter #TheodorLoos #drama #epic #poem #SilentFilm #Germany #1920s

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