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    Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (13 September 1883 – 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter...
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    caduta di Troia) is a 1911 Italian silent short film directed by Giovanni Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto. It is the first known cinematographic...
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    Cabiria (category Films directed by Giovanni Pastrone)
    Cabiria is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during...
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    of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years...
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    recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d'Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from...
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  • Griffith Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo...
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  • 1961), television presenter. Carlo Parola (1921–2000), footballer. Giovanni Pastrone (1883–1959), director. Giuseppe Patrucco (born 1932), retired footballer...
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  • Francesco Pasinetti Pier Paolo Pasolini Uberto Pasolini Sergio Pastore Giovanni Pastrone Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Livio Pavanelli Pier Ludovico Pavoni Riccardo...
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    Tigre reale (category Films directed by Giovanni Pastrone)
    1916 silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone under the name Piero Fosco, adapting the eponymous 1875 novel by Giovanni Verga. Giorgio La Ferlita, Italian...
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    of the first Italian films were aired in Turin. Examples include Giovanni Pastrone Cabiria, in 1914, one of the first blockbusters in history. The Turin-based...
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