Marc Antony and Cleopatra

Overview

Based loosely on Shakespeare's play, Plutarch's "Life of Antony", and Pietro Cossa's dramatic poem, "Cleopatra", this movie was spectacular for its time. It offers location shots made in Italy and Egypt, large crowd scenes (e.g., the Roman army embarking in Alexandria), lots of emotional drama (Marc Antony & Cleopatra, his wife Octavia, sister of Antony's rival Octavian, unhistorically coming to Alexandria to beg him to return to her, and some mean, mean looks exchanged between Octavia and Cleopatra.

Directed by Enrico Guazzoni

Top cast

Gianna Terribili-Gonzales

Cleopatra

Amleto Novelli

Marcantonio

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Ignazio Lupi

Augustus Caesar Ottaviano

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Elsa Lenard

Ottavia

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Matilde Di Marzio

La schiava Agar aka Charmian

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Ruffo Geri

Il capo dei congiurati

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Ida Carloni Talli

La strega

Bruto Castellani

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Giuseppe Piemontesi

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