“The dialogue between the work of Dante and film will be the theme of Professor Helge Rønning‘s conference, organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Oslo and streaming live on the Institute’ s Facebook page.

“This happy conjunction is taking place in the year of the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of the poet’s death and in the week of the 2021 edition of Fare Cinema, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation’s festival dedicated to promoting Italian film and its trades. The possibilities arising from the encounter between Dante – in particular the Divine Comedy and the Inferno – and film (and later television) have long fascinated filmmakers, ever since the days of silent films.”    –“Dante in film and television,” Italiana, July 15, 2021 (link expired, but see the Wayback Machine’s archived version here)