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Tigre reale

1916 · Itala Film · Dir. Giovanni Pastrone

"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent idiosyncrasy that any silent diva would kill to star in… In "Tigre Reale", Frau Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future. She was married to a revolutionary and the matrimony ended in tragedy. She likes to flirt with men but due to her traumatic sentimental past, she doesn't allow herself attachments. That is until she meets a young diplomat who will help her to make up her mind and exorcize her old sentimental traumas.

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Why this status applies

Tigre reale, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and starring Pina Menichelli, was released in Italy in 1916. Under US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have definitively entered the public domain in the United States. This expiration is absolute and regardless of the work's status in its country of origin or whether it was ever registered with the US Copyright Office. Because the film was released in 1916, its statutory copyright term of 95 years has long since expired. It transitioned into the public domain no later than 75 years after publication under older statutes, and the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act did not extend protection for works that had already entered the public domain. Consequently, there is no active US copyright protection for this title. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.
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Supporting facts

  • AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  • IMDb: Tigre reale (1916)
  • US Copyright Office Circular 15a: Duration of Copyright
  • Cornell University: Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States

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