La Tosca (1909 film)

La Tosca is a 1909 French film directed by André Calmettes and Charles Le Bargy.^[1]

Cast

• Cécile Sorel  : Floria Tosca, a famous opera singer
• René Alexandre Mario Cavaradossi, a painter and supporter Bonapartist her young lover
• Charles Le Bargy, the Baron Scarpia, the ruthless police chief of Rome
• Charles Mosnier Cesare Angelotti, the leader of the opposition arrested by Scarpia

Plot

Rome, June 17, 1800, shortly after the French victory at Marengo. Floria Tosca, a famous opera singer Mario Cavaradossi's lover, a young painter and Bonapartist sympathizer. The latter causes the ire of Baron Scarpia, the ruthless police chief and scorned lovers of Tosca, Angelotti escape by the Leader of the Opposition, and hiding his mistress. Scarpia and Cavaradossi stops condemned to be shot at Castel Sant'Angelo. Tosca begs for mercy. Scarpia agrees to replace the bullets of the firing squad if she agrees to become his mistress. She pretends to accept, but soon the baron he gave the order to save Mario she stabs him to death. What she ignores is that Scarpia had waved to the officer came to him orders meaning that it was a decoy for sleep Tosca. When it discovers that Mario had indeed been shot, she jumps off the parapet of the castle.

See also

• List of rediscovered films

References

• "The Moving Picture World", USA, 5 June 1909
• Henri Bousquet, "Catalogue Pathé des années 1896 à 1914 (1907-1908-1909), Edition Henri Bousquet, Paris, 1993, 256 pages, page 172, ISBN 2-9507296-1-4

External links

• La Tosca at the Internet Movie Database