Lyda Borelli
Lyda Borelli (22 March 1884 - 2 June 1959) was an Italian actress, her career in theatre started in 1902. Between 1913 and 1918 Borelli made 14 films and appeared in 2 documentaries. She often portrayed vamps who end up committing suicide via poison. Her acting was mainly based on excessive gestures, painful expressions and languid gazes. Antonio Gramsci, who, in 1917 worked as a theatre reviewer, criticised her stating she represented a heightened form of sensuality, "a part of a primordial and prehistoric humanity" that had managed to cast a spell on the audience.
Satan's Rhapsody
as Contessa Alba d'OltrevitaA Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, but in...
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Madame Guillotine
as Madame Tallien“Madame Tallien” (1916) depicts the libertine life and loves of the eponymous decadent...
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Love Everlasting
as Elsa HolbeinGrand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the...
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The Thirteenth Man
as uncreditedLa storia dei tredici is an Italian silent film starring Lyda Borelli.
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The Wedding March
as Grazia di PlessansGrazia de Plessans abandons her studies in a convent following a mystical crisis. In her...
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The Suitcase of Dreams
as uncreditedIn the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi...
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Flower of Evil
as LydaLyda is a prostitute with no education and no hope for the future. Unfortunately, this...
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Malombra
as Marina di MalombraMarina di Malombra (Borelli) lives in a castle prior to her wedding. She begins to read letters...
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Diva Dolorosa
as uncreditedIn this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut...
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La memoria dell'altro
as LydaYoung aviatrix Lyda spurns the advances of the Prince of Sèvre and falls in love with journalist...
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The Naked Truth
as LoletteThe painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which...
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Carnevalesca
as uncreditedCarnevalesca with the beautiful Lydia Borelli is divided in to 4 parts, the white carnival, the...
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La falena
as Thea di MarlievoThea is a sculptor who is diagnosed with tuberculosis before she marries Filippo. After...
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The Legend of Saint Barbara
as Saint BarbaraShort film in which Barbara's father is killed in a raid of the Vandals. When Barbara and the...
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Fashion in Movement
as uncreditedCompilation film with film fragments from 1910 to 1930 about fashion, clothing, movement and...
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