Slave Women of Corinth
1958 film by Mario Bonnard
- 1958 (1958)
Slave Women of Corinth (Italian: Afrodite, dea dell'amore, aka Aphrodite, Goddess of Love) is a 1958 Italian epic historical drama film written and directed by Mario Bonnard.[1][2]
Plot
Antigonus, archon of Corinth, wants to build a magnificent temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, for which the people are oppressed by new and very high taxes. The sculptor Demetrius, asked to make the face of the goddess Diana, falls in love with a slave, the Christian Lerna. With the arrival of the plague the people are increasingly discontented and Antigonus has easy game accusing the Christians who are immediately arrested and sentenced to death. The Roman troops arrive to restore order, saving the two lovers Demetrius and Lerna.
Cast
- Isabelle Corey: Lerna
- Anthony Steffen: Demetrius (credited as Antonio De Teffe)
- Irène Tunc: Diala
- Clara Calamai: Stenele
- John Kitzmiller: Tomoro
- Ivo Garrani: Antigonus
- Massimo Serato: Quinto Rufo
- Giulio Donnini: Erasto
- Carlo Tamberlani: Matteo
- Gianpaolo Rosmino: Dineo (credited as Giampaolo Rosmino)
- Andrea Aureli: Kibur
- Matteo Spinola: Glauco
- Adriano Micantoni: Ftire
- Mino Doro: Crepilo
- Germano Longo: Osco
- Paul Muller: L'Asiatico (credited as Paolo Muller)
- Livio Lorenzon: La Spia (credited as Silvio Lorenzon)
- Liliana Gerace: La Veggente
- Emma Baron: Onoria
References
External links
- Slave Women of Corinth at IMDb
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Films directed by Mario Bonnard
- The Betrothed (1923)
- The Circus of Life (1926)
- The Golden Abyss (1927)
- The Sinner (1928)
- Theatre (1928)
- Struggle for the Matterhorn (1928)
- Call at Midnight (1929)
- The Call of the North (1929)
- The Son of the White Mountain (1930)
- Five to Nil (1932)
- No Women (1932)
- Three Lucky Fools (1933)
- The Missing Treaty (1933)
- The Wedding March (1934)
- Territorial Militia (1935)
- Adam's Tree (1936)
- Thirty Seconds of Love (1936)
- The Ferocious Saladin (1937)
- The Count of Brechard (1938)
- I, His Father (1939)
- Frenzy (1939)
- Father for a Night (1939)
- The King's Jester (1941)
- Marco Visconti (1941)
- Before the Postman (1942)
- Rossini (1942)
- The Peddler and the Lady (1943)
- Romulus and the Sabines (1945)
- What a Distinguished Family (1945)
- Farewell, My Beautiful Naples (1946)
- City of Pain (1948)
- Margaret of Cortona (1950)
- The Vow (1950)
- Stasera sciopero (1951)
- The Last Sentence (1951)
- Torment of the Past (1952)
- I figli non si vendono (1952)
- Frine, Courtesan of Orient (1953)
- Concert of Intrigue (1954)
- They Stole a Tram (1954)
- La ladra (1955)
- Allow Me, Daddy! (1956)
- Slave Women of Corinth (1958)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
- Gastone (1960)
- Rome 1585 (1961)
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