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I came across this little movie some time ago and knew nothing about it beforehand besides the year - I just love those good old movies, they are so silly at times but very informative; with each one I can see the signs of a cinema yet to come, how much they influenced today's cinematography and most probably everything that was made up in the first 30 years since the invention of cinema had got its tails in today's industry as well. Filibus is certainly one of those.When it comes to who made what first, people tend to forget that not everything was made in America - sure the likes of D. W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin have popularized the moving pictures art genre but let's not abandon also the forgotten creators of yesterday, i.e. The movie makers of Italy who first came up with a peplum genre and epic, long tales (two hour long 'Cabiria' was made in 1914, a whole year before Griffith's groundbreaking 'The birth of a nation') and then tranformed the detective genre with 'Filibus' adding sci-fi and a little of cross-dressing drama to it (that was mostly unheard of in the 1910s, especially in Italy).Filibus is the name of a female antagonist, played gorgeously by Valeria Creti, an evil mastermind, a criminal and simply a sky pirate (this way it was put in the title of the movie). She has an airship, a zeppelin-like aircraft which she uses to transport her, drop by and pick her up anywhere she wants and multiple identities, including male, which makes her crimes almost unsolvable by the poor detective Kutt-Hendy who just doesn't know who to look for.The told story is simple enough to make you dissolve in it and short enough to carry you till the end safely without falling asleep. Filibus is insidious and she makes you want to empathize with her more than with others and you unwillingly start to root for her instead of good guys of the movie who are just plain boring people with nothing but a thin shadow behind their one-dimensional characters. In fact, the whole 70-minute movie could have easily been a short 25-30 minute first episode of the series that was for some reasons stretched out to full length but there never came a continuation of this story, and it's a pity. I think Filibis had got potential back in the day and should have been either a series of films (in the vein of Louis Feuillade's Vampires films that came out later in the year) or a longer, more well-thoughtout detective story than it turned out to be.Considering its solid age of 110 years Filibus doesn't feel dated or irrelevant, it uses the technical advantages of the era to the movie's fullest and the cast gives fine performances, if you're not into authenticity that is.

Back in 1913 the French movie studio Gaumont and director Louis Feuillade created a craze for crime thriller serials with FANTOMAS about a master-of-disguise super criminal and a dogged detective determined to capture him. This was, no doubt, inspired by Sherlock Holmes and his pursuit of Professor James Moriarty but this time around the focus was on the criminal rather than the detective. Later in 1916 Feuillade would create JUDEX about a caped crime fighter battling injustice (sound familiar?) and conclude the genre in 1917 with LES VAMPIRES about a gang of super criminals led by a woman.I'm providing this background because it is generally not realized that before the outbreak of World War I, the two leading film industries were in France and in Italy. So if the French were cashing in on crime serials, then the Italians would follow suit. In April 1915 they premiered the first of what was to have been a five part serial about the exploits of Filibus, a female master criminal who had multiple identities and who carried out her crimes, a la Jules Verne, from a flying metal airship. Unfortunately WWI escalated and the other four episodes were never produced.The story is set in then contemporary Italy. A daring series of robberies have been committed by the mysterious thief known only as Filibus. We already know from the credits that Filibus is a woman as we have seen her in her various disguises. In reality she is a rich socialite who steals from those in her circle. When she learns that top detective Kutt Hendy is on the case, she intends to frame him for the thefts while she goes after some rare diamonds. Her plans succeed, but for how long? Valeria Creti is wonderful as the titular character while Giovanni Spano is the stoic detective trying to catch her.Milestone Films has released this title on DVD and Blu-Ray. The print comes from The Netherlands and was restored by their celebrated Eye Film Museum. The print looks pretty good although there is some damage but the color tinting helps to diminish it except for one sequence. There are a host of extras including 3 background scores, some historical shorts and a complete 1916 Italian feature also starring Valeria Creti. If you enjoyed FANTOMAS which inspired FILIBUS which inspired LES VAMPIRES then you must see this. However Milestone's 21st century description of the movie is a little too over-the-top...For more reviews visit The Capsule Critic.

Filibus

1915 [ITALIAN]

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Filibus

1915 [ITALIAN]

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

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Still relevant after 110 years

FILIBUS Is The Female FANTOMAS.

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