Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor

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Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
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Directed by Alfonso Brescia
Written by Mario Amendola
Alfonso Brescia
Vittorio Vighi
Starring Femi Benussi
Don Backy
CinematographyFranco Villa
Edited byVincenzo Vanni
Music by Carlo Savina
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
LanguageItalian

Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor (Italian : Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero) is a 1972 commedia sexy all'italiana film co-written and directed by Alfonso Brescia starring Femi Benussi and Don Backy.

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Plot

Cast

Production

The film was produced by Luis Film. [1] [2] As with other Alfonso Brescia productions of the time, it reuses scenes from other 1960s peplum films. [2] [3] According to screenwriter Vittorio Vighi, the Terence Hill and Bud Spencer duo was the inspiration for the characters played by Don Backy and Peter Landers. [2]

Release

The film was released in Italian cinemas on 21 November 1972. [2]

Reception

Italian film critic Marco Giusti described it as funny and better than expected. [2] According to Derek Elley, it is a film that "with its floating morality, picaresque leads, arena scenes, convenient baptism and final miracle, satirises the popular aspects of the [epic] genre". [4] Paolo Mereghetti described it as "a failed attempt to mix a parody of the sword-and-sandal genre, the spaghetti western fistfights, and a bit of sexy comedy". [3]

References

  1. ↑ Casadio, Gianfranco (2007). I mitici eroi: il cinema "peplum" nel cinema italiano dall'avvento del sonoro a oggi (1930-1993) (in Italian). Longo. p. 272. ISBN   978-88-8063-529-1.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Giusti, Marco (2019). "Poppea, una prostituta al servizio dell'impero". Dizionario Stracult della commedia sexy. Bloodbuster edizioni. p. 355-6. ISBN   978-88-943385-3-9.
  3. 1 2 Mereghetti, Paolo (2010). "Poppea una prostituta al servizio dell'impero". Il Mereghetti 2011. Vol. 2. Baldini Castoldi Dalai. ISBN   978-88-6073-626-0.
  4. ↑ Elley, Derek (4 December 2013). The Epic Film: Myth and History. Routledge. p. 70. ISBN   978-1-317-92887-4.
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