Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii 1926

Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption. Adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s love story, the film was innovative in its special effects and an early major box-office hit. A beautiful tinted restoration print was prepared using photochemical processes by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale in the mid-1990s and the premiere screening of the restoration print was held in the amphitheatre in Pompeii, followed by a screening at the major restoration festival ‘Il Cinema Ritrovato’ in Bologna in 1998.

Cast:

Victor Varconi
Glauco 

Rina De Liguoro
Ione 

María Corda
Nydia 

Bernhard Goetzke
Arbace 

Emilio Ghione
Caleno 

Lia Maris
Julia 

• The Last Days of Pompeii