Maria Jacobini
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Maria Jacobini.
Born: February 17, 1892
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
The Film in the Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
Eternal Melody
The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Domestic Hearth
Drama about a young man blinded by love.
Cainà
Cainá is a young peasant who lives in a small village in Sardinia together with her goats and parents. She is a wild and free spirit and unconventional for any small and closed communities dominated by old rules. Cainà yearns to escape from such a closed atmosphere and the isolated island, so, as an old tune says: "Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere, waiting for me…"; When a boat arrives to the island, she will do her best to flee away from her little oppressing village and experience new adventures in the continent with the help of the boat captain.
La Casa Sotto la Neve
A snowy Italian drama directed by Gennaro Righelli.
The Living Corpse
The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more conventional Victor Karenin, a rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he first falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer, Masha.
Woman of the Mountains
An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he’d had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught.
The Movie Star
A young woman accidentally becomes a movie star.
Mother Hummingbird
A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.
Filmography
as Maria, sorella di Rodolfo
as Maria di Vigliè
as La duchessa Giulia Filangieri di Satriano
as Suor Maria
as La madre
as Anna Maria Mozart
as Imperatrice Giuseppina
as Luigia Uttini, madre di Verdi
as Signora Margit, madre di Giorgina
as Herself
as Baroness Irene de Rysbergue
as Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova
as Graziella Morosin / poi G. Dorigo
as Frau Brison / Musa Samarra
as Beatrice Cenci
as Maria
as Maria
as Self
as Mimi
as Cainà
as Maria
as La giovane spagnola