Filibus

Filibus (1915)

La misteriosa pirata aérea Filibus roba a los ricos y luego se retira a la seguridad de su dirigible, tripulado por un grupo de secuaces enmascarados que obedecen al instante todas sus órdenes. Cuando un prestigioso detective emprende la investigación de los robos, Filibus intenta incriminarlo como el ladrón, al tiempo que alterna disfraces masculinos y femeninos para cortejar a la hermana del detective.

Fecha de estreno
1915-03-12
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (28)
Duración
1 h 19 min
Géneros
Crimen, Drama, Misterio
Director
Mario Roncoroni

Reparto

Curiosidades

Filibus is a 1915 Italian silent adventure film directed by Mario Roncoroni and written by the future science fiction author Giovanni Bertinetti. It features Valeria Creti as the title character, a mysterious sky pirate who makes daring heists with her technologically advanced airship. When an esteemed detective sets out on her trail, she begins an elaborate game of cat and mouse with him, slipping between various male and female identities to romance the detective's sister and stage a midnight theft of a pair of valuable diamonds.

Production

In 1914, the Turin-based film distributor Umberto Corona launched his own production company, Corona Film. The company produced 26 films before disbanding in 1918, mostly low-budget adventure films with little-known casts.

Filibus, one of the company's offerings for 1915, was directed by Mario Roncoroni, probably making his directorial debut. Roncoroni went on to direct La Nave (1921) in collaboration with Gabriele d'Annunzio, before moving to Spain, where his film career continued through the rest of the 1920s. The cinematography was by Luigi Fiorio.

The screenplay was by Giovanni Bertinetti, a writer connected to the Futurist movement among the Turin intelligentsia; in addition to film scenarios, he wrote science fiction and adventure stories for children, as well as self-help guides espousing the Futurist ideals of "courage, audacity and revolt." In writing Filibus, Bertinetti may have been especially influenced by a contemporary push to bring feminist ideals to Futurism, spearheaded by the…

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