This film relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again.
Acting
Luisa Ferida's smoldering, operatic devastation.
Costume
Czarist-era gowns that scream 'I have baggage.'
Director
Camillo Mastrocinque
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Luisa Ferida was a controversial fascist sympathizer who was executed by partisans in 1945, making this tragic role eerily prescient.
This Italian adaptation of Sardou's 1882 play arrived when Hollywood was dominating screens, a defiantly European melodrama.
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