Il ratto delle sabine is a Italian

Italian language

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 adventure

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 comedy

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 film from 1961, directed by Richard Pottier

Richard Pottier

Richard Pottier was an Austrian-born French film director. He was born in Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch.-Selected filmography:* A Rare Bird 1935)* Fanfare of Love * Guilty Melody...

, written by Edoardo Anton, starring Roger Moore

Roger Moore

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 and Jean Marais

Jean Marais

-Biography:A native of Cherbourg, France, Marais starred in several movies directed by Jean Cocteau, for a time his lover, most famously Beauty and the Beast and Orphée ....

. The scenario was based on a novel of André Castelot

André Castelot

André Castelot, born André Storms was a French writer, historian and scriptwriter born in Belgium. He was the son of the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas and Gabrielle Storms-Castelot, and the brother of the film actor Jacques Castelot...

. The film was also known under the title "L'Enlèvement des Sabines" (France), "Il ratto delle sabine" (Italy), "Les femmes de Sabine" (Canada, French title), "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen " (West Germany), "El rapto de las sabinas" (Spain), "Romulus and the Sabines" (USA), "O Rapto das Sabinas" (Portugal).

Cast

• Mylène Demongeot
  Mylène Demongeot
  Mylène Demongeot is a French actress, who has appeared in 72 films since 1953. She was born Marie-Hélène Demongeot in Nice, Southern France....
  
   : Réa
• Roger Moore
  Roger Moore
  Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...
  
   : Romulus
• Francis Blanche : Mezio
• Jean Marais
  Jean Marais
  -Biography:A native of Cherbourg, France, Marais starred in several movies directed by Jean Cocteau, for a time his lover, most famously Beauty and the Beast and Orphée ....
  
   : Le dieu Mars
• Scilla Gabel
  Scilla Gabel
  Scilla Gabel is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1954 and 1982.She was born in Rimini, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Tarzan's Greatest Adventure * Mill of the Stone Women...
  
   : Dusia
• Folco Lulli
  Folco Lulli
  Folco Lulli was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 104 films between 1946 and 1970. He was the brother of actor Piero Lulli.-Selected filmography:* Flesh Will Surrender * Tragic Hunt...
  
   (VF : Jean Davy
  Jean Davy
  -Career:He was a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.He was a French voice of Charlton Heston -Filmography:*L'équipage *Mayerling...
  
  ) : Titus Tatius
• Rosanna Schiaffino
  Rosanna Schiaffino
  Rosanna Schiaffino was an Italian film actress. She appeared on the covers of Italian, German, French, British and American magazines.-Early life:...
  
   (VF : Claire Guibert) : La déesse Vénus
• Niksa Stefanini (VF : René Arrieu)
• Giorgia Moll
  Giorgia Moll
  Giorgia Moll, born in Rome, Province of Pordenone, is an Italian actress.-Selected filmography:* 1956 : Mio figlio Nerone by Steno : Lidia* 1956 : Club de femmes by Ralph Habib : Gina...
  
   : Lavinia
• Claude Conty (VF : Marcel Bozzuffi
  Marcel Bozzuffi
  Marcel Bozzuffi was a French film actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as a brutal hitman in the Oscar-winning US film The French Connection...
  
  ) : Tarquinius Albus
• Luisa Mattioli : Silvia
• Marino Masé : Lino
• Walter Barnes (VF : Claude Bertrand) : Stilicone
• Nietta Zocchi : La reine
• Franco Albina : Lepico
• Dobric (VF : Pierre Asso) : Numa Pompilius
• Dada Gallotti : Flaminia
• Mariangela Giordano : Domizia
• Dragan Jankovitch : Le roi
• Dina Santris : Albina

External links

• Il Ratto delle sabine (1961) at the Films de France