lidiaquaranta &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:lidiaquaranta @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:55:10 +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

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