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Constantine and the Cross (Italian: Costantino il grande) is a 1961 historical drama film about the early career of the emperor Constantine, who first legalized and then adopted Christianity in the early 4th century. The fictionalised film only stretches as far into his life as the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in AD 312.

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Constantine and the Cross
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Directed by	Lionello De Felice
Screenplay by	Ennio De Concini Lionello De Felice Diego Fabbri Ernesto Guida Franco Rossetti Guglielmo Santangelo[1]
Story by	Fulvio Palmieri[1]
Produced by	Joseph E. Levine Ferdinand Felicioni[1]
Starring	Cornel Wilde Belinda Lee Massimo Serato
Cinematography	Massimo Dallamano[1]
Edited by	Mario Serandrei Gabriele Varriale[1]
Music by	Mario Nascimbene[1]
Production companies	Jonia Film Jadran Film Beaver Attractions[1]
Distributed by	Variety Distribution
Release date	January 1961 (1961-01) (Italy)
Running time	120 minutes
Countries	Italy Yugoslavia[1]

It was also known as Constantine the Great or Constantino il Grande - In Hoc Signo Vinces.[2]

Premise

Constantine wins a battle and is sent to Rome. On the way he and his friend Hadrian are attacked by bandits. Hadrian is nursed back to health by some Christians, including Livia. The bandits were sent by Maxentius, Constantine's rival for power.

Constantine watches some Christians be eaten by the lions. He jumps into the arena to defend a surviving child, and asks for the other Christians to be set free.

Livia is arrested. Hadrian, who has fallen in love with her, arranges for her to escape from prison. Constantine is blamed, Maxentius persecutes Christians and attacks Constantine in Gaul.

Cast

• Cornel Wilde as Constantine
• Belinda Lee as Fausta
• Massimo Serato as Maxentius
• Christine Kaufmann as Livia
• Fausto Tozzi as Hadrian
• Tino Carraro as Maximian
• Carlo Ninchi as Constantius Chlorus
• Vittorio Sanipoli as Apuleius
• Nando Gazzolo as Licinius
• Annibale Ninchi as Galarius
• Elisa Cegani as Elena
• Franco Fantasia as Roman Soldier
• Loris Gizzi as Roman Prosecutor
• Enrico Glori as Livia's Father
• Jole Mauro as Celi
• Nando Tamberlani as Diocletian
• Renato Terra as Jailer
• Lauro Gazzolo as Amodius

Production

Filming took place in August 1960, with locations in Yugoslavia and studio work in Rome.[3] While filming a scene in Rome Cornel Wilde was scratched by a lion.[4] Filming was completed by November.[5]

Release

Constantine and the Cross was released in Italy in January 1961.[1] It was released in the United States in December 1962.[1]

Reception

The New York Times called it "one of those ponderous costumed tabloids that's trampled history to death and turned what's left of its fragments into boring banalities."[6]

The Monthly Film Bulletin said "the familiar ingredients of this tired spectacle - lions, fair haired Christian girls, torture chambers, battles, assassination attempts, intrigue - fail to arouse any noticeable excitement in the director or the cast."[2]

The movie was one of Belinda Lee's more widely seen European films.[7]

See also

• List of historical drama films
• List of films set in ancient Rome

References

Sources

• Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476662916.

External links

• Constantine and the Cross is available for free download at the Internet Archive
• Constantine and the Cross at IMDb
• Constantine and the Cross at the TCM Movie Database
• Costantine and the Cross at Variety Distribution
• [COSTANTINO IL GRANDE - IN HOC SIGNO VINCES
• Constantine and the Cross at Letterbox DVD

На других языках

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- [en] Constantine and the Cross

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[ru] Константин Великий (фильм)

«Константин Великий» (итал. Costantino il Grande) — фильм 1961 года (Италия, Югославия) о римском императоре Константине I Великом режиссёра Лионелло Де Феличе.

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