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Spartaco

Italian postcard. L'amore di Spartaco per Valeria - Metrobio all'agguato (The Love of Spartaco for Valeria - Metrobio plots a trap). Spartacus (Mario Guaita - Ausonia) secretly loves Valeria (Maria Gandini), sister of his enemy Crassus, while Metrobio (Luigi Mele), head of the gladiators, is jealous. In other versions Valeria's name was changed in Elena and Metrobio's in Norico.

 

Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913).

 

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