La sposa del Nilo (1911)

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• 1911

Die Braut des Nil (1911) was a proto-epos, " where you could sense the German filmmakers (Enrico Guazzoni in this case) gearing up to the gigantic imaginings of Cabiria and Quo Vadis just a few years on The film wanted to impress you with its stateliness and scale; at time the central action (young virgin is drowned to appease Isis and ensure that the Nile floods) became lost in the crowded frame – but that just reminded that you early cinema audiences look that much more intently at what was going on, and picked up on details that our lazier eyes sometimes miss.