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Henry Otto, Dante’s Inferno (1924)

October 14, 2006 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Otto InfernoHenry Otto directed Dante’s Inferno (1924), a silent film interpretation of the poem.

“The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder and executed, and is afterward taken by demons to the Hell where he will spend the rest of eternity.”    —IMDb

 

 

 

Contributed by Dennis Looney

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1924, Films, Inferno

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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.

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