Video id 3937

Film Artistica Gloria was the first cinematographic company to understand that for the cinema to support the war effort during the First World War it was not sufficient to resort, as most of the other production companies were doing, to the ridiculous rodomontades of a Maciste or a Cretinetti that, dressed up as a soldier, was able to put an entire regiment of krauts on their knees and thus win the war with their antics. They made a more refined choice by adapting stories from the book Cuore for the screen. Here young Lombard lookouts and heroic Sardinian drummerboys sacrificed themselves for their country, fighting the eternal enemies, even in far-off wars. To play the parts of these intrepid youths two already experienced twelve year olds, Gigi Petrungaro and Ermanno Roveri, were called in. In fact Roveri is the hero of Dagli Appennini alle Ande: the search for and final reuniting between mother and son after overcoming thousands of obstacles is one of the most moving stories written by Edmondo De Amicis and is the longest of his monthly series. The resulting film had a long play on the screen.
Vittorio Martinelli, Catalogue Il Cinema Ritrovato 1994.

Film restored in collaboration with Associazione Italiana per le Ricerche di Storia del Cinema.