The Bacchantes (film)

The Bacchantes

Directed by	Giorgio Ferroni
Written by	Giorgio Stegani Giorgio Ferroni
Music by	Mario Nascimbene
Cinematography	Pier Ludovico Pavoni
Release dates	1961
Language	Italian

The Bacchantes (Italian: Le baccanti, French: Les bacchantes, also known as Bondage Gladiator Sexy) is a 1961 Italian-French adventure-fantasy film directed by Giorgio Ferroni. It is loosely based on the Euripides' tragedy The Bacchae.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Taina Elg as Dirce
Pierre Brice as Dionysos
Alessandra Panaro as Manto
Alberto Lupo as Pentheos
Akim Tamiroff as Teiresias
Raf Mattioli as Lacdamos
Erno Crisa as Atteon
Miranda Campa as Agaria
Gérard Landry as Shepherd
Nerio Bernardi as High Priest
Enzo Fiermonte as Polikrates
Nino Marchetti as Thebaner

References

↑ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
↑ Patrick Lucanio. With fire and sword: Italian spectacles on American screens, 1958-1968. Scarecrow Press, 1994. ISBN 0810828162.

External links

The Bacchantes at the Internet Movie Database

The Bacchae by Euripides (405 BC)

Characters	Dionysus Tiresias Cadmus Agave Pentheus Autonoe Ino

Films	The Bacchantes (1961) Dionysus in '69 (1970) The Bacchae (2002)

Plays	Dionysus in '69 (1968) A Mouthful of Birds (1986) The Lightning Child (2013)

Operas	The Bassarids (1966)

Trilogy	Iphigenia in Aulis Alcmaeon in Corinth

Related	Daphne (opera) Ink (novel) Talk (play)

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