Theodora, Slave Empress
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Director Riccardo Freda Duration Music director Renzo Rossellini | 6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Adventure, Romance Running time 2h 4m Language Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1954 Writer Andre-Paul Antoine (story), Riccardo Freda (story), Rene Wheeler (screenplay), Claude Accursi (screenplay), Ranieri Cochetti (screenplay), Riccardo Freda (screenplay) Screenplay Riccardo Freda, Claude Accursi, Rene Wheeler, Ranieri Cochetti Cast Georges Marchal , Gianna Maria Canale , Renato Baldini , Irene Papas , Carlo Sposito , Nerio Bernardi Similar movies Gianna Maria Canale movies, Emperor movies, Other similar movies Tagline Mistress Of A Barbaric Empire - Master Of An Unconquerable Emperor! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theodora, Slave Empress (Italian: Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio) is a 1954 film about Theodora, a former slave who married Justinian I, emperor of Byzantium in AD 527–565. It was directed by Riccardo Freda.
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Release
Theodora, Slave Empress was the first of director Riccardo Freda's film to obtain a wide distribution outside Italy.
Reception
In a contemporary review, The Monthly Film Bulletin gave the film a negative review referring to the film as a "dispiriting experience." The review referred to Freda as direction as "laboured" and that he "brings neither gusto nor honest vulgarity to the narrative" The review also referred to the action scenes, stating that only the chariot race is staged with "any suggestion of real flamboyancy or flair" and the Canale's erotic dance before Justinian is "painfully unexciting".
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