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The Last Days of Pompeii

  • March 1926
  • 3hrs

    16mins

  • History
  • Directed by

    Carmine Gallone,

    Amleto Palermi,

    Starring

    Victor Varconi,

    Rina De Liguoro,

    María Corda,

    Bernhard Goetzke

    ...

    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.