Francesca Bertini Movies

Maria and Luigi love each other in spite of their poverty, while she resists her many wealthy suitors. But their mutual enemies figure out a lie that...

La Possession is a 1929 French film directed by Léonce Perret.

It tells the story of Dante Alighieri's love to Beatrice Portinari, loosely based on Dante's poetry.

One evening at a ball, Count Georg de Clermont-Latour—a man who places great importance on convention and traditional notions of...

A film based on the drama of the same name by Antonio Gutiérrez, which formed the basis for Giuseppe Verdi's famous opera Il Trovatore. Count...

La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provincial bourgeois Armand Duval. Armand’s...

Sara is a very beautiful gypsy. One fine day, she meets a rich English woman, to whom she strangely reminds her late daughter. She decides to give...

A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of...

Dora, daughter of the Marchioness of Río Zares, marries the politician Andrés. Despondent, Countess Zicka launches the lie that she is...

Silent adventure film in which a horse riding woman has to save her husband from prison in a enemy country.

Documentary in which 94 year-old Francesca Bertini recalls her life and career while attending a screening of Assunta Spina.

Film adaptation of the Celtic legend of Tristan and Iseult.

The frenetic pace of the edit was intended to match the action, based on Article 635 of the French criminal code stipulating that after 20 years on...

A menaced politic leaves his child with another family who will raise her unaware of her true origin. When she grows up the son of a duchess falls in...

Ivonne is a vulgar, loose, promiscuous and a passionate danseuse at the tavern. Countess Edith is an angelic creature, exquisitely elegant, a finite...

Short film.

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century.