Satanic Rhapsody ("Rhapsodia Satanica" ) -1915

Rough translation of the introduction for this YouTube post from the original Italian:

Satanic Rhapsody is a 1915 film directed by Nino Oxilia.
The soundtrack is by Pietro Mascagni, one of the greatest composers of the period and the first composer of the profession in Italy to sign a soundtrack, in synchronization with the scenes of the film, working called "the long, arduous and difficult"
"The film, adapted from the poem" Dawn of Oltrevita "Fausto Maria Martini, directed by and starring Nino Oxilia an inspired and talented Lyda Borelli, has shown everyone in the Enchanted atmosphere of the early '900, telling the story of an old countess (Dawn of Oltrevita fact) who makes a pact with Mephistopheles, and in this way, in exchange for lost youth, agrees to renounce love. What's not easy for the woman, that the hand of Satan's accomplice, Sergio pushes suicide by refusing his attentions and grants him his brother Tristan. It will make it his soul to the devil before they have repented and returned to old . The star in this fine work is the music that Mascagni wrote in 1915 and masterfully adapted to film. By participating in the script, did not create a simple score, but managed to speak, whispering and shouting pictures by giving them an increase in tension that accompanies the listener until the dramatic ending. " Prologue of Alba was Oltrevita Castle of Illusion, the vestal white death. Silver hair, wrinkles on the forehead, wrinkles on the forehead, words full of a withering of autumn, from the melancholy urn, saw his own youth away, beyond the shadow reviving his regret, turned on the pupils of the onrushing guests to lure more gray among the gray castles ... She did not cry: aged, wise. The legend of equal thought of his past, marble sculptures, which resulted in the live blood brisk fire of love and welcomed his twenty years as a gift, returned to the limit of death, blue as the sunrise over the sea ...