Medieval Movies: A Filmography

Williams | Medieval Movies: A Filmography David John Williams University of Reading Medieval Movies: A Filmography Parameters This must be presented with apologies. It is not a finished list but a selection from a working tool. It is accident, not policy, that for some entries I give more information than simply director and country of origin, and sometimes not even that much. The idea is to give an overall chronology of productions rather than details on individual fims, which, for famous cases, are available elsewhere. Accuracy is greater in some areas than others. I have seen only some of the films myself, so that, especially among the early productions, there are bound to be both omissions and duplications (the same film under an alternative title). Genuine alternative titles, to facilitate the tracing of individual films, are given in brackets. Dates are mostly of release (in the country of origin) rather than production, except, for instance, in complicated cases like Andrei Rublev. As for what is medieval, I have included everything from approximately the Vikings to the day before Columbus sailed, but have not been strict. What one needs to know about the films is whether makers or audiences call them medieval or not. Perhaps I have included too many sword and sorcery fantasies, but some might say not enough 1898 Jeanne d'Arc, d. Georges Hatot. France. 1900 Jeanne d'Arc, d. Georges Méliès, with Louise d'Alcy. France. 1903William Tell, d. Lucien Nouguet. France: Pathé Frères. 1904Parsifal, d. Edwin J. Porter. USA: Edison. From the Wagner opera; reissued 1909. 1906Esmeralda, d. Alice Guy. France. A version of Notre Dame de Paris. L'Inferno. Italy. 1907The Pied Piper ofHamelin, d. Percy Stow, Great Britain: Clarendon. 1908Jane Shore. Great Britain: Gaumont Co. Leggenda Medievale, d. Mario Caserini. Italy: Ambrosio. Macbeth. USA: Vitagraph. The Martyrdom ofThomas Becket. Great Britain: Clarendon. The Viking's Daughter, d. J. Stuart Blackton. USA: Vitagraph. When Knights Were Bold. USA: Biograph. 20 I Film & History The Medieval Period in Film | Special In-Depth Section 1909Alboino e Rosmunda. Italy: Pasquali e Tempo, Torino. // Conte Ugolino, d. Giovanni Pastrone. Italy: Cines. Corradino di Svevia (Conrad VLast ofthe Hohenstauffens), d. Romolo Bacchini. Italy: Vesuvio. Henri UL. Italy: Cines. L'inferno. Italy: Saffi-Comerio. Jeanne d'Are (La Vie deJeanne d'Are), d. Albert Capellani, with Léontine Massart as Jeanne. France: Pathé Frères. Lancelot and Elaine, d. J. Stuart Blackton, USA: Vitagraph. Reissued in Great Britain 1914. Luigi Xl Re di Francia, ?. Luigi Maggi, with Albert Capozzi, Luigi Maggi, Mirra Principi, Mario Voller Buzzi. Italy: Ambrosio. Macbeth, d. André Calmettes. France: Pathé Frères. Macbeth, d. Mario Caserini. Italy: Cines. Marin Fallero Doge di Venezia, d. Giuseppe de Liguoro, with Salvatore Papa, Arturro Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro. Italy: Saffi-Comerio. Richard HL USA: Vitagraph. Robin Hood andhis MerryMen, d. Percy Stow. Great Britain: Clarendon. La Vie deJeanne d'Arc, ?. Mario Caserini, with Maria Gasperini. Italy: Cines. William Tell. Denmark: Nordisk. 1910Il Cid, d. Mario Caserini. Italy. L'Inferno. Italy: Helios. I Nibelunghi. Italy: Milano Film. KingArthur (The Knights ofthe Round Table). Great Britain: New Agency Film Co. The Martyrdom ofThomas Becket, Archbishop ofCanterbury. USA: Vitagraph. Pia de' Tolomei, d. Gerolamo Lo Savio, with Tina Orsini Sansoldo, Attila Ricci, Gastone Monaldi, Giulio Grassi. Italy. Robin Hood. USA: Kalem Co. Le Roi Arthur, d. Giuseppe de Liguoro. Italy. 1911Dante e Beatrice (fi Paradiso). Italy: Psiche. L'Inferno, d. Giuseppe de Liguoro. Italy: Milano Film. Gerusalemme Liberata, d. Enrico Guazzoni. Italy: Cines. hanhoe, d. J. Stuart Blackton. USA. Ivanhoe, d. Herbert Brenon. USA. Ivan il Terribile, ?. Pëtr Cardinin. Russia. Lady Godiva, d. J. Stuart Blackton. USA: Vitagraph. Said to be derived from Tennyson's poem. Macbeth, d. F. R. Benson. Great Britain. Notre Dame de Paris, d. Albert Capellani, with Claude Garry, Henry Krauss, René Alexandre, Stacier Napierowska, Paul Capellani, Mévisto. France: Pathé Frères. /7 Poverello d'Assisi, d. Enrico Guazzoni, Italy: Cines. Richard III, d. F. R. Benson. Great Britain: F. R. Benson Co. Le Siège de Calais, d. Henri Andreani. France: Pathé Frères. Tristan et Yseult, ?. Albert Capellani. France: S. C. A. G. L. Vol. 29.1-2(1999) | 21 Williams !Medieval Movies...