Itala Film

In 1905, industrialists Carlo Rossi and William Remmert established a company in Turin, recruiting filmmakers from Pathé.

[1] Over the next decade, the company enjoyed enormous growth, aided by signing up Pathé's most popular comedian André Deed.

This policy was crowned with the success of Pastrone's 1914 epic Cabiria set in Ancient Rome.

[2] The company continued to make epics along with literary adaptations, while Maciste, the most popular character in Cabiria, appeared in further films.

[3] In the early 1930s, the Itala Film name was recycled for a Berlin-based company established by the producer Alberto Giacalone.