"The restoration was carried out with contributions from the Regione Piemonte." "Gift of John Pastrone to the Museum of Cinema (1959)" "Royal Bengal Tiger G. Verga" "Piero Fosco - producer" "An Evening at the Palazzo de Rancy" "Here is the Russian Countess!" "What led to the death of her last lover..." "Do you want me to introduce you to the Countess Natka!" "Gladly, but beware!" "I do so without any responsibility!" "Giorgio La Ferla, attaché to the Embassy." "The Countess Natka Bolkonski." "Every dance taken." "The bizarre Countess offers him her dance card anyway." "The "removed" name from the dance card is the great Guidoni, the famous swordsman." "I will take care of him then I know which of the two men" "Paid with his life, just as happened at the whim of the Roman circus?" "Dawn" "Convalescence" "I love you!" "I'm leaving, goodbye." ""The Countess did not want to say where she went."" ""She took the train south."" "But soon Giorgio lost her trail  and he returned from Palmira." "One day ... and Giorgio thought no more of her..." "But a few days later..." "Come tonight." "She will be there." "But at the end of the evening" "But as a Machiavellian lover, the good diplomat... was a failure." "Why haven't you been here more often?" "My permission?" "!" "Of course, granted, granted." "Come Friday evening." "Thos." "Cook and Son, Leisure Travel." "Combined itineraries" "Of course, it would not be my advice to follow her." "But take a pleasure trip" "Or request a posting to the embassy in Washington or Beijing." "Friday at Countess Natka's." "Giorgio, my friend, I know it is painful but you are making yourself out to be a ridiculous figure." "Go on, go home ..." "Don't go." "Stay." "Oh!" "What torture, lying all night ..." "I've kept it because I know you are a fair pianist and the music drives away my headache." "Do you want to catch your death of cold?" "Going out, uncovered, in the cold night air?" "Is it important to you?" "!" "You are cruel!" "Look, we are alone, at night among the rustling of leaves and the moonlight" "Lovers of the stars ..." "If you could see how beautiful you are!" " Really?" " How much I love you!" "Who?" "You?" "And the terrible cough" "Racks her fragile body until, distraught, she falters and falls ..." "Believe me." "This cough will kill you!" "And Natka became as docile and as obedient as a little girl." "And in the quiet warmth Natka found comfort." "I love you!" "I'm leaving; farewell" "Do you feel better?" "If I were polite to you, you be so, too." "Please, write what you said, just as if you thought it" "In a memory of this evening, which we spent together playing Romeo and Juliet." "Write:" "I love you, I am leaving, and I am ..." "It's useless, because I've already written it for the last time." "You!" "You, then!" "So I know you are lying!" ""Would I be your lover?" "Would you like me to give myself to you"" ""Tomorrow evening, coolly, deliberately"" ""Without loving you?" "Would you like that?" "... "" ""Oh?" "How do you know that I would not commit suicide to escape"" ""your fatal charms!"" ""You will kill ..." "You say that as a lover"" ""Have you had a good time in the carriage with the fresh girl?" "I'm not sorry, and now it's late ..." "You need to know!" "Sit down!" "I loved ... once." "He was a rebel, a student from Poland." "The police wanted him." "He hated me because I was of the race of his masters." "There was a gulf between us ... dizziness caught us." "My husband did not love me." "He was absent." "I'll be back ." "He knew where I was." "Do not try to see Dolske again..." "He was deported!" "I knew it." "I believed he died." "He was absent ..." "I ran away ..." "I went on alone." "And when I reached him at last I knew that he had been driven to distraction ..." "like you!" "And, crazy, I rode, I rode ..." "That man loved me truly, in his own way" "As in the manner of the rest of you ..." "He saw me anyway, at the cost of his life ..." "At that moment I could not forgive the man who could kill me." "He who was filled with so much dignity and guilt." "After four days and four nights of rest he had recovered." "Payment!" "Do it!" "And do it beautifully!" "When I left the bed, I was consumptive." "He's dead;" "I shall soon die." "That's what love is!" "Tell me at least ..." "What I have written ..." "Do you think then?" "Good night." "The Countess pays the price for her walk in the moonlight with a few days of fever." "Giorgio did not see her any more." "Countess, I know you are unwell, and I am very sorry." "First, there is the fact of an event by the enemy which requires me to leave without kissing your hand." "By order of the Minister, I must immediately leave for the embassy in Lisbon." "I must go now." "I am going to the theater; do you want to go with me?" "The first act of the opera, Ruy Blas." "And the melody connects to the heart of the suffering Natka as if by a magic wire." "THE FAMOUS DUET OF ACT III" "Oh, sweet voluptuousness Love's noble desire" "But the thunderous applause of the audience required the singers to" "Stop singing melody, thus breaking the thread ... and her soul felt broken!" "And so in the shadows, suddenly, without uttering a syllable ..." "No." "I will not!" "I do not love you." "I despise myself." "The Count had come unexpectedly." "I'll be ready to leave tomorrow morning, Count." "Giorgio, when we last parted I knew that that would be our last goodbye." "I have responded, and I wanted to suffocated in your arms as jealous as a tiger." "I love you!" "I love you!" "But I will see you never again." "I say this in order to drive this word like a nail into your heart" "As I have driven your picture like a nail into mine." "You know that little remains of this life for me!" "Goodbye, Giorgio" "I am making you a promise:" "I want to die near you" "I am crying on my knees to you!" "Natka" "I love you!" "I love you!" "But I will see you never again." "I say this in order to drive this word like a nail into your heart" "As I have driven your picture like a nail into mine." "FOR RENT" "In the passage of time, Giorgio yielded to the insistence of a rich merchant who wanted him to marry his daughter." "Hoping to forget most easily the woman he loved" "Giorgio gets engaged." "Natka promised:" "To die in your arms." "The beloved's voice calls unnecessarily" "Mr. Ferlita is not available." "Natka chooses to die in the Grand Hotel Odeon Theatre." "The wing of the Hotel where Natka prepares to die bustles with cosmopolitan life." "Countess, I am sending you the drug you want." "It is only a temporary convenience for your wellbeing." "It will extend your life but not for long." "But remember: no more than three drops in 24 hours." "With respect, Dr Rufsel." "Natka will be lively for an hour for her Giorgio during the last days of life that remain." "And her cheeks burned with the improvised flame and the eye of the ancient splendor." "Woe to him that pushes open this fatal door!" "...More of that cordial ... more ... a few more drops!" "And the glow of the drama of passion in the theater brought the crowd to applaud the dance of fire." "Tell me, how beautiful?" "Tell me." "Did you love as I loved you?" "Tell me!" "And she had in her voice something that was dark and fatal and brought to her body a terrible convulsion as if from a blow that caused the poor bone to crack ..." "And, hard, rigid, cataleptic, almost stiff" "Little by little the beautiful body entered the veil of death." "The short circuit" "The fire had almost reached the wing of the Grand Hotel." "And in the splendor a fiery sunset ..." "Natka's fervent love for her adored Giorgio miraculously returned her to youth and life" "THE END..." "Ektinar"