Cléopâtre (film, 1963)
See also: Cléopâtre
Cléopâtre ( Cleopatra ) is an American film carried out by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and left in 1963.
Synopsis
48 before J.C. Jules César falls in love with Cléopâtre, makes him a son and restores it on its throne of Egypt. Four years later, after the assassination of Jules César, it is with the turn of Marc Antoine to fall in love with beautiful.
Comment
It is the film of all superlatives: a four hour old monument, with the titanic and rocambolesque turning, which put its studio at the edge of the bankruptcy, with enormous means, distribution of heads of posters, whims of stars, multiple rebuildings of decorations, five years project and turning spread out over 2 years, stopped many times, etc And despite everything, and against comparable films, the film also marked the history of the cinema by the power of the treatment and its interpretation, exceeding the personal and sentimental considerations expensive in Hollywood to register them from the political and historical point of view. Far from crushing it, the extent of the setting in scene is put here at the service and in counterpoint of the art of the dialog, main character of all films of Mankiewicz.
Data sheet
- Title: Cléopâtre
- original Title: Cleopatra
- Realization: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Scenario: J.L. Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman, according to Plutarque, Suétone, Appien and The Life and Times off Cleopatra of C.M. Franzero
- Production company: Twentieth Century Fox Photo
- : Leon Shamroy
- Music: Alex North
- Decorations: John De Cuir
- Costumes: Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Disavows
- Montage: Dorothy Spencer
- Country of origin: the United States
- Format: Colors - 70 mm
- Kind: historical Drama
- Lasted: 243 minutes, then 184 minutes
- Comings out date: July 31st 1963 (the United States); October 25th 1963 (France).
Distribution
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Elizabeth Taylor: Cléopâtre (French voice: Claude Winter)
- Richard Burton: Marc Antoine (French voice: Jean-Claude Michel)
- Rex Harrison: Jules César (French voice: Roger Tréville)
- Roddy McDowall: Octave (French voice: Jean-Louis Jemma)
- Pamela Brown: the large Priestess (French voice: Marie Francey)
- Hume Cronyn: Sosigène
- Martin Benson: Ramos (French voice: Roland Menard)
- Andrew Keir: Clutched (French voice: Claude Bertrand)
- Martin Pram: Rufio (French voice: Roger Rudel)
- Kenneth Haigh: Brutus (French voice: Serge Lhorca)
- Michael Gwynn: Cimber (French voice: Michel Gudin)
- Andrew Faulds: Canidius (French voice: Gerald Castrix)
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