“The film Pandorum (2009) makes several allusions to The Divine Comedy.” —Wikipedia
Maurizio Guarini, live soundtrack for 1911 Inferno film (2017)
“I started this live project in 2017. The director of the Italian Institute of Culture had the idea, and asked me if I wanted to do a live soundtrack with the occasion of the International Seminar on Critical Approaches to Dante organized by the University of Toronto. I saw this incredible movie from 1911—the first Italian feature film ever. and I took up the challenge.
“This first performance, that took place at the Innis Town Hall (University of Toronto), received a great audience response, so I decided to go ahead and do more shows.” —Maurizio Guarini
A Divina Comedia (1991)
Released in 1991, the Portuguese drama film A Divina Comèdia was written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira.
“Dante’s Inferno Films World Premieres Take Over Italy”
“Dante’s Hell and Inferno Dantesco Animato, both films produced and directed by Boris Acosta, will premiere at MIA (Rome film festival market) on October 17, 2020, and later on will have its world festival premiere at the Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival on October 31, Halloween Day and will continue on to November 8, 2020.
Both films are based on Inferno, Dante Alighieri’s first part of the literary masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. Not until now, has this story been told so descriptively by visual art from artists of the highest caliber and an array of celebrities and known scholars.”[. . .] –Global Film Sales, WFMZ-TV News, 2020
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