The Royal Tigress (1916)
"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent idiosyncrasy that any silent diva would kill to star in… In "Tigre Reale", Frau Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future. She was married to a revolutionary and the matrimony ended in tragedy. She likes to flirt with men but due to her traumatic sentimental past, she doesn't allow herself attachments. That is until she meets a young diplomat who will help her to make up her mind and exorcize her old sentimental traumas.
Director:
Giovanni Pastrone
Writer:
Giovanni Verga
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Pina Menichelli as Countess Natka |
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Alberto Nepoti as Giorgio la Ferlita |
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Febo Mari as Dolski |
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Valentina Frascaroli as Erminia |
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Ernesto Vaser as Il droghiere |
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Enrico Gemelli as |
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Bonaventura Ibáñez as |
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Gabriel Moreau as |
| Directing | Giovanni Pastrone | Director |
| Camera | Segundo de Chomón | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Giovanni Tomatis | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Giovanni Verga | Novel |
| Writing | Giovanni Verga | Screenplay |