Based on a serialised story by the Salernitan author Davide Galdi, which was published at the end of the nineteenth century in the Neapolitan daily “Il Roma”, the film is deeply enmeshed in the reality of Naples, reproducing the teaming streets bisected by trams and carriages and entranced by the landscape which accompanies the two protagonists’ brief idyll. Alongside Tina Somma, other standout actors include Camillo Talamo (an imposing Dante Alighieri in Caramba’s 1921 La mirabile visione) and a young Tina Pica in the role of a maid – probably her very first film appearance. All that remains of the film is a 235-metre fragment, included in repertory material attached to a Rassegna del cinema napoletano, commissioned by Titanus in the 1960s. The surviving sequences belong to the first and second part of the film and include about 20 intertitles (numbered discontinuously between 20 and 70).

Maria Coletti