Tigre reale

Giorgio La Ferlita, Italian diplomat in Paris, falls in love during a reception with the Russian countess Natka, who is told to have led to death her former lover.

Once they have become lovers, she tells him about her past. She was unhappily married, and fell in love with another man named Dolski. When her husband discovered their affair, he had his rival confined in Siberia. Natka followed Dolski in Siberia, but when she finally found him, she discovered that he was with another woman. She ran away and refused to see him any more. Desperate, he committed suicide in front of her door.

After telling Ferlita her story, the countess dismisses him and disappears. After searching in vain during a few months, the diplomat decides to marry the rich Erminia. During his engagement party, he receives a letter from Natka, asking him to join her at a hotel. He leaves the party and comes to her room to find that she has taken a poison and is shaken by convulsions. A short-circuit sets the hotel on fire and her husband, mad with jealousy, locks them in the room. They manage to escape by jumping out of the window while her husband is killed in the fire.

• Pina Menichelli: Contessa Natka
• Alberto Nepoti: Giorgio La Ferlita
• Febo Mari: Dolski
• Valentina Frascaroli: Erminia
• Ernesto Vaser: il droghiere

The film was produced by Itala Film, the company created by Carlo Rossi and Giovanni Pastrone, alias Piero Fosco.

IMDb

• Italy : 9 November 1916
• Spain : 15 December 1916
• Portugal: 12 February 1919
• Japan : April 1919

• V. Attolini - Storia del cinema letterario in cento film - Recco, Le Mani editore, ISBN 8880121030. (in Italian)

• Tigre reale on IMDb