''Slave of Rome'' (, also known as ''Slave Warrior'') is a 1961 Italian
peplum film
Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (: pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Holl ...
written and directed by
Sergio Grieco
Sergio Grieco (13 January 1917 – 30 March 1982) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Sergio's father was the Italian Communist Party, Italian Communist Ruggero Grieco.
Grieco first started in film in the Soviet Union in 1 ...
and starring
Rossana Podestà and
Guy Madison.
Plot
The peace treaty with Rome was broken when Gaius Valerius and his legion were wiped out by a tribe of Gauls led by Lysircos, so Julius Caesar gave his son, Tribune Marcus Valerius and his British and German auxiliary legionaries, who were loyal to his father a chance to avenge his death.
Caesar wants to extend his frontiers in Gaul and stop the tribes from joining those of Vercingetorix, the leader of all the Gallic tribes. Among the other tribal leaders, Modius wants to renew the peace treaty with Rome, acknowledging their superior power and wants peace for his beautiful daughter Antea, but Lysiricos wants the Romans out of Gaul.
Tribune Marcus Valerius now faces a difficult task. Will it be peace or war?
Cast
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Rossana Podestà as Antea
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Guy Madison as Marcus Valerius
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Mario Petri as Lycircos
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Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Giacomo Rossi Stuart (25 August 1925 – 20 October 1994) was an Italian film actor often credited as Jack Stuart or Giacomo Rossi-Stuart. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1953 and 1989. including the ''Gamma One'' science fiction f ...
as Claudius
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Ignazio Leone
Ignazio Leone (19 April 1923 – 30 December 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 105 films between 1952 and 1976.
Selected filmography
* '' The Walk'' (1953)
* '' I Chose Love'' (1953)
* '' Amici per la pelle'' (1955)
* '' A Wo ...
as Lutinius
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Raf Baldassarre as The German Mercenary
* Niksa Stefanini as Modius
* Freddy Hunger as Trullius
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Mirko Boman
Mirko Boman (11 December 1926 – 30 August 2013) was a Croatian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1959 to 2002.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1926 births
2013 deaths
Male actors from Zagreb
C ...
as Theod
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Nando Poggi as Roman Soldier
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Nazzareno Zamperla as Roman Soldier
References
External links
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1961 adventure films
Films directed by Sergio Grieco
Gallic Wars films
Sword-and-sandal films
1960s Italian-language films
1960s Italian films
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