Cuore: L'Infermiere di Tata
Italian edition by Alterocca, Terni. Cover of a series of 6 postcards on the Italian silent film L'infermiere di Tata (Gloria Film, 1916), adaptation by Leopoldo Carlucci of one of the short stories from Edmondo De Amicis' volume Cuore (1885). [We have uploaded all 6 cards from this series earlier on Flickr]
Because of a sad misunderstanding in a hospital, young Cicillo (Guido Petrungara) attends to a agonizing ill man, thinking he is his father. The boy thinks of his poor mother and brother and sister, far away. Then the real father appears and embraces his son. The latter doesn't leave the dying man and stays with him till he dies.
Cuore: L'Infermiere di Tata
Italian edition by Alterocca, Terni. Cover of a series of 6 postcards on the Italian silent film L'infermiere di Tata (Gloria Film, 1916), adaptation by Leopoldo Carlucci of one of the short stories from Edmondo De Amicis' volume Cuore (1885). [We have uploaded all 6 cards from this series earlier on Flickr]
Because of a sad misunderstanding in a hospital, young Cicillo (Guido Petrungara) attends to a agonizing ill man, thinking he is his father. The boy thinks of his poor mother and brother and sister, far away. Then the real father appears and embraces his son. The latter doesn't leave the dying man and stays with him till he dies.