In 2011, L'Inferno's centenary, a brand new and more complete digital restoration by Italy's Cineteca di Bologna was released on their own DVD label. The film has English intertitles and subtitles in German, French, Spanish, and Italian. It was scored by father and son Edgar and Jerome Froese, of the German electronic band Tangerine Dream.
#INFERNO MOVIE CAST ARCHIVE#
In 2004, a newly restored version of the film, combining British and American prints from the BFI National Archive and the Library of Congress, was released on UK DVD by the Snapper Music label. Home video įor many years, L'Inferno was largely unseen and only available in lower quality, incomplete copies. An international success, it grossed more than $2 million in the United States, where its length gave theater owners an excuse for raising ticket prices. L'Inferno was first screened in Naples in the Teatro Mercadante on March 10, 1911. Some American state film censor boards required removal of the hell sequences from L'Inferno used in Go Down, Death!, such as one where a woman's bare breast is momentarily seen. The scenes from Hell from the film were reused in an American 1936 exploitation film, Hell-O-Vision and the 1944 race film Go Down, Death!. Her description of the film in her letter home is quoted during the biography Nancy Mitford by Harold Acton. She details many of the deaths and tortures from the film. She records that it lasted from 9 until 12:15 including two intermissions.
Nancy Mitford recorded seeing the film in Italy in 1922, referring to it as Dante. Īs Dante's Divine Comedy places Muhammad in hell, the film also has a momentary unflattering depiction of Muhammad in its Hell sequence (his chest explodes, exposing his entrails). L'Inferno's depictions of Hell closely followed those in the engravings of Gustave Doré for an edition of the Divine Comedy, which were familiar to an international audience, and employed several special effects. Giuseppe de Liguoro as Il conte Ugolino.The main attraction of the film are the fantastic set designs depicting the horrors of Hell, with excessive violence and gore, designed to frighten the audience into becoming pious or God-fearing. These characters include Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucanus, Cleopatra, Dido, the Queen of Carthage, the traitor Caiphus, Count Ugolino, Peter of Vigna, Francesca Da Rimini and her lover Paulo, Brutus and Cassius, Mohammed and Helen of Troy.
#INFERNO MOVIE CAST SERIES#
There follows a series of encounters in which the two meet up with a number of formerly famous historical figures whose souls were denied by both Heaven and Hell, and they listen to some of their tales told in flashback. They see the Devil eating human beings whole, harpies eating the corpses of suicides, an evil man forced to carry his own severed head for eternity, people half buried in flaming lava, etc. They also see the three-headed Cerberus, and Geryon, a flying serpent with the face of a man. Virgil leads Dante to a cave where they find the river Acheron, over which Charon ferries the souls of the dead into Hell. Beatrice descends from above and asks the poet Virgil to guide Dante through the Nine Circles of Hell. Dante is barred from entering the hill of salvation by three beasts that bar his path (Avarice, Pride, and Lust).
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