Maria Caserini

Born: 1884-07-24

Maria Caserini began acting in stage productions at an early age. Her first film was in 1906 for Cines in Rome, in what is considered the first film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Mario Caserini, her husband. She starred in Romeo and Juliet in 1908 and then in thirteen other films until 1909. One of these films was Macbeth, directed by her husband. From 1910 to 1927 she acted in 65 films, many of them always directed by her husband, such as Lucrezia Borgia, whose performance gave her greater notoriety. She resumed theatrical activity soon after abandoning her film career. She was buried in the Maggiore Cemetery in Milan, where her remains were later interred in a small cell.


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Love Everlasting

as Granduchess of Wallenstein
Released: 1913-10-03

Grand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the...

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Agrippina

as uncredited
Released: 1911-01-01

In "Agrippina" (1910), Guazzoni recreates the particular and troublesome relationship between...

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Christus

as uncredited
Released: 1916-04-08

Antamoro's CHRISTUS, epic in scale and ambition, and featuring decidedly otherworldly special...

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Parsifal

as Parsifal Mother
Released: 1912-11-12

A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.

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Amleto

as uncredited
Released: 1910-09-26

A selection of Hamlet’s most famous scenes are reproduced in this Italian production from 1910.

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Monna Vanna

as uncredited
Released: 1916-03-25

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Nero and Agrippina

as Agrippina
Released: 1914-01-01

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

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The Railway Owner

as Marchesa di Beaulieu
Released: 1919-02-25

Filippo Derblay, a young man of humble birth, became, thanks to his job, the owner of the...

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Anita Garibaldi

as uncredited
Released: 1910-09-01

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Life and Death

as uncredited
Released: 1917-01-01

An eight-minute fragment of this Italian Golden Age film survives.

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Gabriella di Beaulieu

as uncredited
Released: 1911-02-01

The Count of Beaulieu wants to give his daughter Gabriella to the Viscount of Armagnac as a wife.

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