Emilio Vardannes

This light-hearted comedy takes place at and around a Parisien haute-couture fashion house and tells a love triangle story.

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is entrusted to a woman of noble birth. With Cabiria's fate unknown, Maciste punished for his heroism, and Fulvius sent away to fight for Rome, is there any hope of our heroes reuniting?

A boy is sent to a reformatory for a small fault. He runs away and tries to kill himself when the gendarmes want to catch him. His parents arrive in time and the disaster is avoided.

A bourgeois gentleman gets excited reading about cops and robbers on the newspaper. His wife, bored by his comments, falls asleep and right after, with the help of the warmth of the living room, he falls asleep too. Then, the shadow of an escaping robber comes to life from the newspaper. Suddenly the dreamer wakes up wearing the cop uniform and starts chasing him.

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On his way out of a wedding, a young boy named Peachskin finds a jewel by chance. Bringing it back to its owner, she becomes his benefactress in the years that pass.

The most explosive and surreal episode of the Maciste series in which we see the hero up against the hardships of the average man: stress, women and cars. The Itala studios are in a disorderly state, the crew watches Maciste in the courtyard as he happily darts around in his new car, a single seater renamed Diattolina in honor of the car maker Diatto, the film’s “sponsor”. Maciste is happy; he caresses the car and talks about his vehicle as if it were his bride. The only thing missing is the honeymoon. But peace and tranquility are not easy to come by: in every corner of the country Maciste is recognized as a generous film star. Waiters, salesmen, passersby and little kids: everyone has a problem for him. Who said something about relaxing? An abandoned castle looks like a peaceful place, but Maciste has not met the wild American girl hiding in the cellar…

A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.

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Toto becomes enraptured with the bloomer dress, and determines to marry a girl wearing the sensible costume. His investigations result in hilarious scenes, ending with a sound thrashing at the hands of a bearded Turk carrying a sunshade, whom Toto mistakes for his ideal, wearing baggy, silken trousers.

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Toto Without Water, a Italian comedy.

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Toto becomes enraptured with the bloomer dress, and determines to marry a girl wearing the sensible costume. His investigations result in hilarious scenes, ending with a sound thrashing at the hands of a bearded Turk carrying a sunshade, whom Toto mistakes for his ideal, wearing baggy, silken trousers.

A Italian short film directed by Emilio Vardannes.

Toto Without Water, a Italian comedy.