Asta Nielsen in Zapatas Bande (1914)

This is a 35 mm film copy that I once found on a fleemarket. It shows a part of the film "Zapatas Bande" with the greatest star of 1910's: Asta Nielsen.
I transferred it to DV and added a musical score to it.
The music score I choose for this excerpt is entitled "storm music" by the American silent film composer J.S. Zamecnik.

The intertitles of this copy are in dutch.

Zapatas Bande, aka Zapata's gang
released 1914
directed by Urban Gad
starring Asta Nielsen
runtime 20 min

In this film filmcrew goes to Italy make a film about a gang. Asta Nielsen is playing herself, in the role of gangleader Zapata. In this fragment we see how the filmcrew accidentily attacks the carriage of countess Bellafoire and her daughter Elena, instead of the awaiting film carriage. Elena is so delighted by the atractive gangleader, that she kisses him on the lips

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• telecine
• preservation
• Asta
• Nielsen
• Zapatas
• Bande
• gang
• 1914
• silent
• movie
• film
• unknown
• cinema
• Ives
• Argus

[ohtsarevich]

Thanks so much for putting this online! I love Asta Nielsen like crazy, she was so awesome. I noticed that your location is the Netherlands, like mine - did you attend the Asta Nielsen festival at the Amsterdam film museum?

[UnknownCinema]

Unfortunately, I've missed this festival at the Amsterdam Film Museum.

[Onlymusical]

Fantastic! Nielsen's the female bandit in the flamboyant hat with the impossibly long feather. What a sensational save!

[samandriel]

found on a fleemarket? wish that would happen to me! I saw the movie on wednesday at an asta retrospective. she is so "insert words of praise here"

[ivycompton]

Wow - extremely rare footage of the great early cinematic gender-bender Asta Nielsen! Thanks very much for posting this.