The Gallant Adventure of a Provincial (1908) Luca Comerio
The Gallant Adventure of a Provincial (Italian title: Avventura galante di un provinciale) is a 1908 comedy film directed and produced by Luca Comerio and starring Luigi Maggi, Lydia De Roberti, Umberto Mozzato. It is most probably the first Italian film that we could define as GBLT-themed. The critics of the time were not at all enthusiastic about it. In an article in the Rivista Fono-Cinematografia of Naples it was defined as a 'film in bad taste and, technically speaking, not without flaws'.
Transvestism was never foreign to the theater and inevitably transmitted to the cinema...
In the scene in which the peeping tom spies a woman undressing only to discover that she is a man. Comerio may have been inspired by this film for his gallant adventure. The film was shot in Milan, although we do not know the exact locations.











