Nel segno di Roma (1959)
Directed by Guido Brignone, Michelangelo Antonioni

Adventure / Drama / Romance / War
aka: Sheba and the Gladiator

Film Synopsis

Having killed her husband, Zenobia, the Queen of Palmyra, declares war on Rome, on the advice of the treacherous Semantius.  General Marcus Valerius is sent by the Emperor Aurelian to put down the uprising.  Defeated, he is taken prisoner but manages to escape with the help of the centurion Giuliano and the kindly vestal virgin Bathsheba...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Guido Brignone, Michelangelo Antonioni, Riccardo Freda, Vittorio Musy Glori
  • Script: Francesco Thellung, Francesco De Feo, Sergio Leone, Giuseppe Mangione, Guido Brignone
  • Cinematographer: Luciano Trasatti
  • Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
  • Cast: Anita Ekberg (Zenobia), Georges Marchal (Marcus Valerius), Folco Lulli (Zemanzius), Chelo Alonso (Erica), Gino Cervi (Aurelianus), Jacques Sernas (Julianus), Lorella De Luca (Bathsheba, the Vestal), Alberto Farnese (Marcello), Paul Muller (Slave Master), Mimmo Palmara (Lator), Alfredo Varelli (Vithos), Sergio Sauro (Flavio), Arturo Bragaglia, Remo De Angelis
  • Country: Italy / France / West Germany / Yugoslavia
  • Language: Italian
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 98 min
  • Aka: Sheba and the Gladiator ; Sign of Rome ; Sign of the Gladiator

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