Dante's Inferno

Name: Dante's Inferno
Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Released: 1911-03-11
Duration: 72 min
Cast: Attilio Motta, Augusto Milla, Emilise Beretta, Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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Release Date

3/11/1911

Runtime

72 mins

Genres

Horror Fantasy

Overview

The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.

Status

Released

Original Language

Italian

Budget

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A haunting descent through elaborately staged layers of damnation, rendered in the chiaroscuro expressionism that Doré's art inspired. Silent cinema's ambition to capture the cosmological scope of Dante's epic.

Mood

Dread-soakedBleak

Themes

MortalityFaithJustice

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

FormalistPainterlyBlack and white

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Graphic violence

Salvatore Papa

Dante Alighieri

Arturo Pirovano

Virgilio

Giuseppe de Liguoro

Farinata degli Uberti / Pier Delle Vigne / Il conte Ugolino

Augusto Milla

Lucifer

Attilio Motta

Emilise Beretta

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