Assunta Spina
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Assunta Spina is a laundress living in Naples, engaged to a violent butcher named Michele Mangiafuoco. She is also courted intensely by Raffaele. When she accepts Raffaele's offer to dance during an open air feast in Posillipo, as she feels Michele is ignoring her, tragedy strikes.
Assunta Spina is a tragedy set in Naples at the beginning of the twentieth century. Assunta and Michele are in love but others come between them and there is much jealousy. They fight and Michele is sent to prison for two years for assault.
- (494)
- Drama
- Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena
- 1916-05-01
Oct 21, 2012 · Now you can watch Assunta Spina with English Subtitles. This film was one of masterpieces of Italian silent films and Francesca was very popular silent film actress in Italy. Thanks for...
- 72 min
- 9.3K
- TheOldblueberry
Dec 29, 2021 · Directed by Francesca Bertini and Gustavo SerenaWritten by Francesca Bertini and Gustavo Serena, based on the novel by Salvatore Di GiacomoStarring Francesca...
- 72 min
- 1901
- Women's Film Classics
Sep 1, 2011 · FRANCESCA BERTINI - ASSUNTA SPINA - 1915
- 72 min
- 38.8K
- Milly Carla Mignone
Assunta Spina is a 1915 Italian silent film. Outside Italy, it is sometimes known as Sangue Napolitano ("Neapolitan Blood"). The original novel from which the story was taken was written by Salvatore di Giacomo, and had been adapted to a successful theatre drama in 1909.
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arguably the world’s first blockbuster film—Assunta Spina is much more intimate in its address. The plot revolves almost entirely around, and in fact can be summarized as, a single act of gendered violence: Assunta Spina, a Neapolitan laundress, has her face slashed with a knife by her jealous fiancé, the butcher Michele Boccadifuoco.
