Brutus (1911 film)

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Brutus
Directed by Enrico Guazzoni
Written byEnrico Guazzoni
Produced by Filoteo Alberini
Starring Amleto Novelli
Production
company
Società Italiana Cines
Distributed bySocietà Italiana Cines
Release date
November 1911
CountryItaly
LanguagesSilent
Italian intertitles

Brutus is a 1911 Italian silent historical film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Amleto Novelli. The film portrays the life of Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar. The film was moderately successful, but not on the scale of his Quo Vadis the following year which was a major international hit. [1]

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