In Pompeii 79AD, Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined to conquer her. Glaucus buys the blind slave Nydia who is mishandled by her owner.
Nydia falls in love with him and asks Arbaces for his help. He gives her a potion to make Glaucus fall in love with him. In fact it is a poison which will destroy his mind. Arbaces' disciple Apoecides threatens to reveal publicly his wrongdoings. Arbaces kills him and accuses Glaucus of the crime. He locks Nydia in a cellar to prevent her from speaking.
Glaucus is condemned to be thrown to the lions. Nydia manages to escape and tells Glaucus' friend Claudius what happened. Claudius rushes to the Circus to accuse Arbaces, and the crowd decides that Arbaces and not Glaucus should be thrown to the lions.
Then, Vesuvius starts erupting, and a widespread panic ensues. Under the shock, Glaucus recovers his mind. Blind Nydia, the only one to find her way in the darkness caused by the rain of ashes, leads Glaucus and Jone to safety and finds peace by drowning herself.[1]
The film was released in Italy on 24 August 1913, distributed by Giuseppe Barattolo. It was distributed in the US by the Kleine Optical Company under the name George Kleine Attractions.
The Last Days of Pompeii was the first film shown in the newly founded city of Tel Aviv, then in Ottoman Palestine. It inaugurated the Eden Cinema, the first one opened in Tel Aviv. (Reference in Morderchai Naor and Amit Levinson, "Who were the 66 Founders of Tel Aviv" מי היו 66 מייסדי תל אביב (in Hebrew), in "Early Tel Aviv, 1909-1934", תל אביב בראשיתה ed. Mordechai Naor, Published by Yad Yitzchak Ben Tzvi, Jerusalem, 1984).
Referencesedit
^Review, synopsis and link to watch the film: "A cinema history". Retrieved 16 February 2015.
Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei/The last days of Pompeii on YouTube
January 01, 1970
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