The Last Days of Pompeii (1908 movie)

The Last Days of Pompeii (Italian: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii) is a 1908 Italian silent drama movie directed by Arturo Ambrosio and Luigi Maggi[1][2] and stars Luigi Maggi, Lydia De Roberti, and Umberto Mozzato. The movie is about the last days of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 October 79 AD and destroyed it.

The Last Days of Pompeii
Directed byArturo Ambrosio
Luigi Maggi
Produced byArturo Ambrosio
Written byRoberto Omegna
Based on'The Last Days of Pompeii
1834 novel
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
StarringLuigi Maggi
Lydia De Roberti
Umberto Mozzato
CinematographyRoberto Omegna
Giovanni Vitrotti
Production
company
Distributed byAmbrosio Film
Release date
December 1908
Running time
17 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageSilent
Italian intertitles

Actors

References

  1. THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
  2. Alan Goble. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film

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