Astrea is a female Strongman, very sporty and aggressive in uniform (Baden Powell style) or even in evening dress if the situation demands it. Polidor is her assistant and servant. She saves a child, heir to a very rich gentleman, who has been snatched by a gypsy named Tuffer and his accomplice, an aristocratic lady who wants to get her hands on the child’s inheritance. The four films played by the mysterious Astrea, a female Maciste whose biography so far remains a mystery, belong to the athletic-acrobatic school of Italian silent cinema, alongside the films of Linda Albertini, Ethel Joyce, Gisa-Liana Doria, Piera Bouvier and others The singularity of the film is its situation between the adventure genre and the comic, in the balance between the two characters who hold the reins of the different acting registers: Astrea is the protagonist of the drama, while the comic activity of Birillo, played by Polidor, provokes the hilarity of the public The French print of the film restored by the Archives françaises du film du CNC carries the simple title Astrea but the plot does not correspond to Justizia, the first film of the Astrea-Polidor partnership, distributed abroad with great success under the title Astrea. Our identification as L’ultima fiaba (The Last Fable) remains for the moment a working hypothesis. Our research in the archives has brought to light much hitherto unknown material, including two spectacular fragments of a nitrate print in the collection of the Eye Film Institute, Nederlands, currently being restored. This constitutes some 320 metres of Sansone e la ladra di atleti (Samson and the lady who steals athletes) (1919), with Linda Albertini as the woman bandit Sansonette and the legendary Italian cycling champion, Costante Girardengo.