The Trojan Horse (film)
| The Trojan Horse | |
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| Directed by | Giorgio Ferroni |
| Music by |
Mario Ammonini Giovanni Fusco |
| Cinematography | Rino Filippini |
La guerra di Troia (The Trojan War), internationally released as The Trojan Horse, is a 1961 Italian historical drama film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the Trojan hero Aeneas during this time. The film was directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starred Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus.
In 2004 it was restored and shown as part of the retrospective "Storia Segreta del Cinema Italiano: Italian Kings of the Bs" at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.[1]
Cast
- Steve Reeves as Aeneas
- Juliette Mayniel as Creusa
- John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus
- Edy Vessel as Helen
- Lidia Alfonsi as Cassandra
- Warner Bentivegna as Paris
- Luciana Angiolillo as Andromache
- Arturo Dominici as Achilles
- Mimmo Palmara as Ajax
- Nerio Bernardi as Agamemnon
- Nando Tamberlani as Menelaus
- Carlo Tamberlani as Priam
Production
The battle scenes were shot in Yugoslavia.[2] Many scenes were reused in the same director's 1964 film The Lion of Thebes.
Biography
- Hughes, Howard (2011). Cinema Italiano - The Complete Guide From Classics To Cult. London - New York: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-608-0.
See also
References
- ↑ Simone Pinchiorri. "Mostra di Venezia 2008: "Storia Segreta del Cinema Italiano: Italian Kings of the Bs"". La Repubblica. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ↑ Hughes, p.51
External links
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