CABIRIA 1914: a film by Giovanni Pastrone (2021 restored UNCUT)

Little Cabiria goes missing with her nurse after a volcano erupts. Kidnapped by pirates, the little girl is sold on the slave market in Carthage. She is bought by the high priest Karthalo, who wants to sacrifice her to the god Moloch. The script is very loosely based on the novel "Salambo" by Gustave Flaubert. Cabiria is a colossal genre film or peplum by Giovanni Pastrone (who signed under the pseudonym Piero Fosco), released on 18 April 1914 and set in Rome during the Second Punic War. In 1914, Italy dominated the world film industry, relying on the prestige of the colossal, a type of cinema with a long running time and spectacular staging. The success of Enrico Guazzoni's Quo vadis? (1913), which lasted over two hours, prompted Giovanni Pastrone's Itala Film production company (which had already made The Fall of Troy in 1910) to embark on the largest blockbuster film to date.