The Beginner

Pierluigi Ferrandini

Italy / 2012 / Fiction, Experimental / 15’0”I1305447

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Venice, July 1909. An Italian boy, who has just been rejected from the Naval Academy because of a slight squint, saves a British widow's life. That boy will become, in few years time, the greatest mute film icon, the first DIVO: Rudolph Valentino.

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