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Rapsodia satanica (1917)
Rapsodia Satanica (1915) was the last film directed by Nino Oxilia and is undoubtedly one of the finest achievements of the early Italian cinema. In it, Oxilia spins a variation on the Faust myth, embodied here by the diva Lyda Borelli. Typical of extravagant D'Annunzian aestheticism at its height, Rapsodia Satanica was one of the summits of what was later called the "tail coat film." Diametrically opposed to the "cinema of reality" practiced by Serena, Martoglio and others, "tail coat films" set their melodramatic stories in the salons and villas of the upper middle class and the aristocracy, deploying narrative structures contrived to showcase their actors and especially its actresses. This had the effect of accentuating their physical presence and turning them into stars - probably the first stars in movie history. The success of the "dive" contributed to the development of motion picture grammar in its special use of the close-up.
Updated May 26 2020
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Cast
Andrea Habay
Tristano
Ugo Bazzini
Mephisto
Alberto Nepoti
Giovanni Cini
Sergio
Crew
Pietro Mascagni
Music
Nino Oxilia
Director
Alberto Fassini
Screenplay
Alberto Fassini
Story
Fausto Maria Martini
Story
Giorgio Ricci
Director of Photography
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