I raggi Z

I raggi Z has been irresistibly charming in every stage of its gradual rediscovery A 15minute fragment with lovely scenes of a snowy cityscape of Turin surfaced in the early 1990 at the CNC in Paris and was then identified as Oca alla Colbert Eleuterio Rodolfi 1913 because of the seamstresses masquerading as geese After additional discoveries we could screen 30 minutes of the same French version at the Cinema Ritrovato 2009 in the section dedicated to Gigetta and Rodolfi The storyline gave away the correct identification of I raggi Z a 1917 Ambrosio production whose director remains unknown But would any other Italian director than Rodolfi be able to create a comedy of such elegant warmhearted humour and enticing brio and set the stage so well for Gigettas wonderful acting Mariann Lewinsky