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Romola

Romola

1924•1h 46m•6.6/10
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6.6/10(5)

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.

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Production

Inspiration Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish

Romola

Dorothy Gish

Dorothy Gish

Tessa

William Powell

William Powell

Tito Melema

Ronald Colman

Ronald Colman

Carlo Bucellini

Charles Lane

Charles Lane

Baldassar Calvo

Herbert Grimwood

Savonarola

Bonaventura Ibáñez

Bardo Bardi

Frank Puglia

Frank Puglia

Adolfo Spini

Amelia Summerville

Amelia Summerville

Brigida

Tina Ceccaci Renaldi

Monna Ghita

Eduilio Mucci

Nello

Angela Scatigna

Bratti

Ugo Uccellini

Bishop of Nemours

Alfredo Martinelli

Alfredo Martinelli

Captain of the Barque

Attilo Deodati

Tomaso

Gastone Barnardi

Council of Eight member

Alfredo Bertone

Piero de Medici

Pietro Betti

Fra Sylvestro

Gino Borsi

Captain of the Barque

Toto Lo Bue

Fra Benaducci

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