Toto and Cleopatra
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| Directed by | Fernando Cerchio |
| Written by | Bruno Corbucci Giovanni Grimaldi Fernando Cerchio |
| Starring | Totò Magali Noël |
| Cinematography | Alvaro Mancori |
| Music by | Carlo Rustichelli |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Toto and Cleopatra (Italian: Totò e Cleopatra) is a 1963 Italian adventure-comedy film written and directed by Fernando Cerchio.[1][2][3]
Plot
[edit]Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Antony in the most delicate moments. The continuous alternation of the two brothers generates havoc, with Cleopatra increasingly confused about the contradictory behavior of the man.
Cast
[edit]- Totò as Totonno / Mark Antony
- Magali Noël as Cleopatra
- Franco Sportelli as Ahenobarbus
- Carlo Delle Piane as Caesarion
- Moira Orfei as Octavia
- Lia Zoppelli as Fulvia
- Gianni Agus as Senator Gaius Octavius
- Toni Ucci as Senator Publio Nasone
- Mario Castellani as Real Surgeon
- Pietro Carloni as Lepidus
- Nadine Sanders as Ancella di Cleopatra
- Ignazio Leone as Apollodoro
- Adriana Facchetti as Publia
- Franco Ressel as the Sicilian
- Dada Gallotti as Carmiana
References
[edit]- ^ Alberto Anile (1998). I film di Totò (1946-1967): la maschera tradita. Le mani, 1998. ISBN 8880120808.
- ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.
- ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
External links
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Categories:
- 1963 films
- 1960s adventure comedy films
- Italian adventure comedy films
- Peplum films
- Films directed by Fernando Cerchio
- Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
- Depictions of Cleopatra on film
- Depictions of Mark Antony on film
- Depictions of Augustus on film
- Italian parody films
- Films set in the Ptolemaic Kingdom
- Films with screenplays by Giovanni Grimaldi
- Sword and sandal films
- Cultural depictions of Caesarion
- 1963 comedy films
- 1960s Italian-language films
- 1960s Italian films
- Cultural depictions of Lepidus
- Cultural depictions of Octavia the Younger
- 1960s Italian comedy film stubs