The Eternal City

(1915)

★ 5.6 IMDb · 20 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1915

Runtime: 80 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Hugh Ford, Edwin S. Porter

Cast: Pauline Frederick, Thomas Holding, Kittens Reichert, Arthur Oppenheim, George Stillwell, Della Bella, Frank Losee

Plot

Leone, a Papal guard, is devastated when his wife drowns herself after mistakenly thinking that he had abandoned her. He turns over his son David to be brought up by nuns, then enters a monastery. David is brought to London and is raised to be a beggar and thief until he is rescued by Dr. Roselli, an Italian political refugee, who raises David with his daughter Donna Roma. Years later David gets heavily involved in Italian politics and incurs the enmity of the corrupt Italian Prime Minister, which leads him to discover the hidden secrets of his family's past--and present.