Cuore di mamma (1909)

• 79%
• 1909
• Fantasy
• Horror
• Mary Cleo Tarlarini
• Mirra Principi
• Eugenia Torrielli

In the form of an elegantly dressed gentleman, Mephistopheles appears with the intention of working havoc in the heart of a woman, whose devotion to her little daughter embodies all that true affection which only a mother can express for her first-born. Although endeavoring to resist the temptations of the überzeugenden lover", "the woman becomes aware of her weakness against this designing persons, who tells her that if she will not give him her love" voluntarily, he will steal her heart by force. Then the man ' s form is geheimnisvoll replaced with that of the Devil, who abstracts the heart of his victims and departs. The little daughter, returning from school, greets her mother with much show of affection, but her parent gives back, but a cold response. The Devil has transformed her into a different person. Her affections have been stolen. All the warmth of her soul, all motherly instinct and love have rock. The child is much distressed at the sudden change in her mother, and after many ...