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Costantino il Grande
Constantine the Great
Constantine and the Cross / Konstantin der Grosse
Italy/Yugoslavia 1962
produced by Ferdinand Felicioni for Jonia Film, Jadran Film, Beaver-Champion Attractions
directed by Lionello De Felice
starring Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato, Christine Kaufmann, Fausto Tozzi, Tino Carraro, Carlo Ninchi, Vittorio Sanipoli, Elisa Cegani, Carlo Tamberlani, Nando Gazzolo, Lia Angeleri, Enrico Glori, Jole Mauro, Annibale Ninchi, Veriano Genesi, Loris Gizzi, Renato Terra, Franco Fantasia
story by Fulvio Palmieri, screenplay by Ennio De Concini, Lionello De Felice, Diego Fabbri, Ernesto Guida, Franco Rossetti, Guglielmo Santangelo, music by Mario Nascimbene, cinematography by Massimo Dallamano
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Rome, the fourth century AD: Constantine (Cornel Wilde), son of emperor
Constantius (Carlo Ninchi), and his friend Hadrian (Fausto Tozzi) get into
an ambush on their way back to Rome from the battlefield - and are saved
only by the timely intervention of a gang of Christians, including Livia
(Christine Kaufmann), a girl Hadrian soon falls in love with. Christianity
is forbidden in the Roman Empire though, and when he returns to the
capital, Constantine is shocked by the way the Christians are tortured and
fed to the lions just like animals, so much so that he saves a group of
them single-handedly and tries to get legislation passed that would
legalize their religion - much to the dismay of power-hungry Maxentius
(Massimo Serato), who comes up with scheme after scheme to get rid of
Constantine, even if that means sacrificing his own dad (Tino Carraro),
incarcerating his sister (Belinda Lee), who is also Constantine's wife,
and starting a Civil War. Cionstantine's army is of course no match for
Maxentius' army as such, but he can count on the help of the Christians -
one of which is his mother Elena (Elisa Cegani) and the support of God
himself as it seems, and with clever tactics he is ultimately able to
outmaneuver Maxentius and his men, lure them into an ambush and ultimately
kill Maxentius himself to become the Emperor of Rome. So-so
epic movie that was obviously made on a tighter budget than its story
would have demanded, but is by and large devoid of any embarrassingly
cheap scenes - but also of any real highlights to remember it by, and thus
can never escape the feeling that it's only one of many ...
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