Two Nights with Cleopatra

Two Nights with Cleopatra
Film poster
Directed by	Mario Mattoli
Produced by	Giuseppe Colizzi
Written by	Ruggero Maccari Ettore Scola
Starring	Sophia Loren
Music by	Armando Trovajoli
Cinematography	Riccardo Pallottini
Edited by	Renato Cinquini
Release dates	1954 (1954)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Two Nights with Cleopatra (Italian: Due notti con Cleopatra) is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Sophia Loren.^[1]

Plot

Cesare, a Roman soldier, comes to Alexandria to serve in the army staff of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Cleopatra is a beautiful woman, able to charm anyone, and is the wife of Emperor Mark Antony, but when he is not in the city, she prefers to spend the night with one or another of his soldiers, whom she will then have killed the next day with poison.

When Mark Antony comes back to Alexandria to fight a war, Cleopatra visits him secretly while her place at the palace is taken by Nisca, a girl who is so like her she can pass as her double, except for being blonde. It turns out that on one of the evenings on which Cleopatra has been swapped for her double, Cesare fails to notice this. Unaware of the exchange, Cesare spends the night with the girl who proves to be very fragile and sad.

The next night Cesare is arrested for trying to hurt Cleopatra (the real one) but in reality the man just wanted to say hello. Intrigued by the fact that Cesare wears a ring identical to hers, Cleopatra makes him free and offers to spend the night with him, warning him that the next day he will die. Cesare, however, manages to get drunk and to free the "queen" Nisca, locked up in prison. The film ends with the two fleeing from Alexandria.

Cast

Sophia Loren as Cleopatra / Nisca
Alberto Sordi as Cesarino
Ettore Manni as Marcantonio
Paul Muller as Tortul
Rolf Tasna as Meros
Nando Bruno as Legionary
Alberto Talegalli as Enobarbo
Gianni Cavalieri as Taverniere
Carlo Dale as Cocis
Riccardo Garrone as Venus
Ughetto Bertucci as Merchant
Giacomo Furia as Merchant
Enzo Garinei as Merchant
Andrea Bosic as Caio Malpurnio

References

↑ "New York Times: Two Nights with Cleopatra". NY Times. Retrieved 1 August 2008.

External links

Two Nights with Cleopatra at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Mario Mattoli

1930s	Full Speed I Love You Only The Man Who Smiles Sette giorni all'altro mondo La damigella di Bard Musica in piazza Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo These Children Felicita Colombo Destiny Triumph of Love Nonna Felicità L'ha fatto una signora The Lady in White We Were Seven Sisters At Your Orders, Madame We Were Seven Widows Imputato, alzatevi! Mille chilometri al minuto! Lo vedi come sei... lo vedi come sei?

1940s	Abbandono The Pirate's Dream Non me lo dire! Luce nelle tenebre Schoolgirl Diary I Live as I Please Catene invisibili The Three Pilots The Lady Is Fickle Labbra serrate Stasera niente di nuovo La valle del diavolo La vispa Teresa Anything for a Song The Last Wagon The Za-Bum Circus Life Begins Anew Partenza ore 7 The Two Orphans Totò al giro d'Italia Fifa e arena Cab Number 13 Assunta Spina Signorinella The Firemen of Viggiù Adam and Eve

1950s	Totò Tarzan Il vedovo allegro L'inafferrabile 12 I cadetti di Guascogna Totò sceicco Vendetta... sarda Toto the Third Man Il padrone del vapore Arrivano i nostri Anema e core Accidents to the Taxes!! Five Paupers in an Automobile Neapolitan Turk Siamo tutti inquilini Funniest Show on Earth Two Nights with Cleopatra Totò cerca pace Il medico dei pazzi Poverty and Nobility L'ultimo amante Eighteen Year Olds I giorni più belli Peppino, le modelle e chella là Toto, Peppino and the Fanatics Move and I'll Shoot Tipi da spiaggia Prepotenti più di prima Non perdiamo la testa Guardatele ma non toccatele

1960s	Signori si nasce Un mandarino per Teo Appuntamento a Ischia Totò, Fabrizi e i giovani d'oggi Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare Hercules in the Valley of Woe Appuntamento in riviera 5 marines per 100 ragazze Obiettivo ragazze Corpse for the Lady For a Few Dollars Less

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