Hannibal (1959 film)

• Victor Mature: Hannibal
• Rita Gam: Sylvia
• Gabriele Ferzetti Fabius Maximus
• Milly Vitale: Danila
• Rick Battaglia Hasdrubal
• Franco Silva: Maarbal
• Mario Girotti: Quintilius
• Andrea Aureli: Varro
• Mirko Ellis: Mago
• Carlo Pedersoli: Brutario

Hannibal ( Original title: Annibale ) is an Italian sword and sandal film from the year 1959.

There were two differently cut versions of the film. The original version that on 21 December 1959 had premiere in Italy in 1960 and came into the German cinemas, has a length of 95 minutes. In the U.S. market, a version was released at 103 minutes in length in June 1960.

Action

Hannibal, the great Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his warriors to attack Rome. To unsettle the Romans, Hannibal takes Sylvia, the daughter of a senator, caught. Hannibal shows her his army and leaves them free in the hope that they will report it to the Romans and they are intimidated by it. Sylvia, however, does not fulfill its mission: She has fallen in love with Hannibal and returns to it. Both are caught by a Roman patrol, Hannibal escapes, but Sylvia is captured and exiled. Hannibal frees and moves with his army against Rome to subdue the Romans. Suddenly, on Hannibal's true wife and Sylvia flees to Rome where she is arrested and sentenced to death.

Background

Hannibal is the first film in which both Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli ) and Terence Hill ( Mario Girotti ) - assigns each still under her real name, the English pseudonyms emerged only in 1967 with God ... Django never! - Played. Pedersoli has just one small supporting role as a tribal leader Brutario who negotiated with Hannibal passage through his lands and its price, and can be seen under the extensive costuming hardly.

Reviews

" An adventurous and picturesque images arc created as expensive, but disarmingly naive paintings show. "