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Her criminality is more prankish than nefarious, which separates her from the other European master criminals of the silent era, many of which clearly helped inspire her exploits, particularly Louis Feuillade’s serials Fantômas (1913) and Les vampires (1914), the latter of which featured the indomitable cat-suited burglar Irma Vep. She uses both identities to toy with the wealthy and the powerful by tricking and stealing from them. Filibus, whose backstory is never proffered and who appears to simply exist in her own right, has two alternate identities: the wealthy socialite Baroness Troixmond and the dandy gentleman Count de la Brive. “Who is Filibus?” asked the film’s original advertising campaign, thus establishing its primary draw and mystery: the identity of the eponymous Filibus (Valeria Creti), a criminal mastermind who pulls off her daring heists with the aid of a futuristic mini-zeppelin that is always hovering in the air and can lower her via a gondola into any situation without being noticed.
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He also wrote some early science fiction, which clearly influenced his work on Filibus, which freely mixes fantastical and sci-fi elements into its criminal exploits. Alas, it was actually an original screenplay penned by Giovanni Bertinetti, a multitalented and widely published essayist, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who also founded and directed Forum, an art and science magazine based in Turin. With its array of early 20th-century futurist techno-gadgets, impossible derring-do, and criminal cat-and-mouse games, it feels like it was ripped straight from the same newspaper pages that featured Little Nemo in Slumberland or the pulp magazines that would spawn Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, and what we would now call steampunk. Stars: Valeria Creti (Filibus / Baroness Troixmond / Count de la Brive), Giovanni Spano (Detective Kutt-Hendy), Cristina Ruspoli (Leonora), Mario Mariani (Police Magistrate)įilibus: The Mysterious Air Pirate ( Filibus, il misterioso pirata dell’aria), a lively and cleverly absurd silent-era feature about a rare female supercriminal, wasn’t based on a comic strip, but you could be forgiven for thinking that it was.