Febo Mari

Biopic about Atilla the Hun.

The most important aspect of "Cenere" is that it was the only film in which appeared the eminent Italian stage actress Dame Eleonora Duse. She plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to protect him. The amulet will be the key to put him in connection with his old mother when the boy grows up. (imdb)

"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent idiosyncrasy that any silent diva would kill to star in... In "Tigre Reale", Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future. She was married to a revolutionary and the matrimony ended in tragedy. She likes to flirt but due to her traumatic sentimental past she doesn't allow herself attachments. (imdb)

Mario, an unknown artist, is haunted by the encounter of a famous female poet. So much that they are unable to paint. The woman will convince the painter to leave his mother and more in with her. Living with the lady the painter finds inspiration and his work gains fame. But then a telegram informs that the lady's husband in returning.

The model Fede loves the writer Arte, but he is enmeshed by the beautiful Femmina. Fede takes comfort in the Faun, a mythological creature who becomes animated from the stone sculpted by Arte. The love story with the Faun represents a return to a dreamt wildness impossible by now, for the modern man, to reach and maintain.