Animation Artifacts &Luzzati & Gianini 09 Feb 2007 07:49 am
Luzzati & Gianini’s – An Italian In Algiers
- An Italian In Algiers was one of the more popular films of Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini. The film was made in 1969 and was, like many of their other films, an adaptation of an opera using the overture as its soundtrack.
The opera’s story is about Isabella, an Italian woman, who is shipwrecked in Algiers and has become the apple of the eye of Mustafa, the bei of Algiers. Although he has a bevy of wives and slave women, he wants Isabella. Through cunning, she manages to escape Algiers with her young lover and a number of the slaves of Mustafa.
Essentially, the short film tells this same story – but without words.
Here, then, are a number of frame grabs. The film without the music.
(Click any image to enlarge.)
Swept away by angry waves as they sail from Venice, newlyweds Lindoro and Isabella are washed ashore on the African coast.
Isabella is captured and taken to a private space not too far from the other slaves and wives of . . .
Mustapha.
Mustapha visits Isabella, and she pretends to be interested.
She is visited by her new husband, Lindoro. Mustapha learns of their visits.
The film ends in a madcap sea chase with Isabella and Lindoro escaping as the curtain comes down.
