The Last Days of Pompeii (1913 film)

Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (English title: The Last Days of Pompeii) is a 1913 Italian black and white silent film directed by Eleuterio Rodolfi.

Based on Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 novel of the same name, the film – one of two different adaptations of the same book in Italy that year – is set during the final days leading up to the Mount Vesuvius eruption in Pompeii in 79 AD.

Mario Caserini is sometimes co-credited, but the grounds for this are uncertain: The Italian Bianco e Nero magazine mentions only Rodolfi.

The Last Days of Pompeii was the first film shown in the newly founded city of Tel Aviv, then in Ottoman Palestine.

(Reference in Morderchai Naor and Amit Levinson, "Who were the 66 Founders of Tel Aviv" מי היו 66 מייסדי תל אביב (in Hebrew), in "Early Tel Aviv, 1909-1934", תל אביב בראשיתה ed.

The Last Days of Pompeii