Isabelle Corey

Anthony Steffen

Irène Tunc

Carlo Tamberlani

Clara Calamai

John Kitzmiller

Massimo Serato

Ivo Garrani

Giulio Donnini

Gian Paolo Rosmino

Andrea Aureli

Matteo Spinola

Adriano Micantoni

Mino Doro

Germano Longo

Paul Müller

Livio Lorenzon

Liliana Gerace

Edda Soligo

Nada Cortese

Emma Baron

Veriano Ginesi

Ettore Jannetti

Renato Montalbano

Nello Pazzafini

Mimmo Poli

Diego Pozzetto

Enzo Ricciardi

Amerigo Santarelli

Gustavo Serena

Amedeo Trilli

Mario Bonnard

Saverio D'Eugenio

Enrico Cignitti

Eros Bacciucchi

Pietro Nofri

Michele Trimarchi

Adriano Merkel

Bruno Francisci

Fausta Scotolani

Luciana Angelini

Sergio Leone

Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni

Lina Cassini

Romolo Guerrieri

Roberto Giandalia

Ugo Moretti

Duilio Giustini

Silvano Mancini

Silvio Santoloce

Gino Peccerini

Diego Alchimede

Mario Di Nardo

Tullio Petricca

Gustavo Sisi

Irma Tonnini

Luigi D'Andria

Tino Santoni

Alberto Manca

Nella Nannuzzi

Giovanni Fusco

Drama

History

Afrodite, dea dell'amore

Schermi Produzione

Italy

CinemaSerf

Roman Emperor Nero has recently visited Corinth and left "Antigono" (Ivo Garrani) in charge. He is determined to build a magnificent temple to Aphrodite and to pay for this he must tax and enslave some of his people - and that earns him the enmity of just about everyone. Meantime, sculptor "Demetrius" (Anthony Steffen) is charged with crafting the face of the goddess, but when he is accidentally taken prisoner encounters the slave "Lerna" (Isabelle Corey) with whom he falls madly in love. It's never going to be simple for this couple, though, as the scheming "Diala" (Irène Tunc) has her own plans and then there's also a rather ghastly plague that many think is a result of the god's displeasure with the increasing number of Christians being tolerated. To that end, "Antigono" does his own mini-Nero and orders that these religious interlopers be sacrificed. Might this appease his increasingly restless population or might someone come to the rescue of the couple before they become lion fodder? The production detail here is really quite decent, with plenty of attention paid to the sets and costumes as the drama unfolds. There's also a fair amount of swordplay and plenty of conniving going on too. Sadly, the staccato nature of the dialogue drags it down a little and I'm afraid I just found Corey and Steffen about as wooden as a pair of rudii, but that said it's an enjoyably paced and quite entertaining drama that easily passed ninety minutes. Keep an eye out for Massimo Serato - he'd have made a good "Bond" villain, I think.

Italiano

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love

Afrodite dea dell'amore (1958) - Italy Trailer A