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''L'Inferno'' ((:limˈfɛrno)) is a 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from Dante Alighieri's ''The Divine Comedy''. ''L'Inferno'' took over three years to make, and was the first full-length Italian feature film ever made.〔 (''The Story of the Kelly Gang'', released in Australia in 1906 is the first full-length film). ''L'Inferno'' was first screened in Naples in the Teatro Mercadante on March 10, 1911.〔 An international success, it took in more than $2 million in the United States alone, where its length gave theater owners an excuse for raising ticket prices.〔 For this reason, ''L'Inferno'' was arguably the first true blockbuster in all of cinema. Today it is regarded by many scholars and fans as the finest film adaptation of any of Dante's works to date. ==Description== The film's depictions of Hell closely followed those in the engravings of Gustave Doré for an edition of ''The Divine Comedy'', which were familiar to an international audience,〔 and employed several special effects. The first music score for the film was written by Raffaele Caravaglios. The film was released on DVD in 2004, with a score by Tangerine Dream. Another DVD, based on a version restored by Cineteca di Bologna in 2006, was published in 2011 with an original soundtrack by Edison Studio in (Cinema Ritrovato ) collection. As Dante's ''The Divine Comedy'' places Muhammad in hell, and following the depictions in engravings of Gustave Doré, the film also has a momentary unflattering depiction of Muhammad in its Hell sequence. This would make ''L'Inferno'' one of the few films to include such a depiction. Nancy Mitford recorded seeing the film in Italy in 1922, referring to it as ''Dante''. She records that it lasted from 9 until 12:15 including two intermissions. She details many of the deaths and tortures from the film. Her description of the film in her letter home is quoted in the biography ''Nancy Mitford'' by Harold Acton. The scenes from Hell from the film were reused in an American 1936 exploitation film ''Hell-O-Vision'' and the 1944 race film ''Go Down, Death!'' Some American state film censor boards required removal of the hell sequences from ''L'Inferno'' used in ''Go Down, Death!'' such as one where a woman's bare breast is momentarily seen.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「L'Inferno (1911 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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