Cabiria (1914)
Directed by Giovanni Pastrone
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is entrusted to a woman of noble birth. With Cabiria's fate unknown, Maciste punished for his heroism, and Fulvius sent away to fight for Rome, is there any hope of our heroes reuniting?
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What critics compared Cabiria to
We are trapped not in the grim paranoid future of "Blade Runner" but in a turbulent past: the Roman Empire, which, with all its gaudiness and corruption, has continuously fascinated moviemakers from the first great spectacle movie, Italy's "Cabiria" (1914), right up through the '60s, with Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" and Federico Fellini's "Satyricon."
It was one of a handful of productions of the time that, alongside the Italian film Cabiria (1914), experimented with long-form storytelling.