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Fabiola | |
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Directed by | Enrico Guazzoni |
Written by | Fausto Salvatori |
Based on | Fabiola by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman |
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Cinematography | Alfredo Lenci |
Music by | Alexander Henneman |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Languages | Silent Italian intertitles |
Fabiola is a 1918 Italian silent historical film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Augusto Mastripietri, Amleto Novelli and Elena Sangro. It is an adaptation of the 1854 novel Fabiola by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman about the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. It was one of a series of historical epics for which the Italian film industry became famous during the era. The novel was later turned into a sound film of the same name in 1949.