Toto and Cleopatra
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| name =Toto and Cleopatra
| image = Toto and Cleopatra.jpg
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| director = Fernando Cerchio
| writer =Bruno Corbucci
Giovanni Grimaldi
Fernando Cerchio
| starring = Totò
Magali Noël
| music = Carlo Rustichelli
| cinematography =Alvaro Mancori
| editing =
| producer =
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1963}}
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = Italian
| budget =
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Toto and Cleopatra ({{langx|it|Totò e Cleopatra}}) is a 1963 Italian adventure-comedy film written and directed by Fernando Cerchio.{{cite book|last=Alberto Anile|title=I film di Totò (1946-1967): la maschera tradita|year=1998|publisher=Le mani, 1998|isbn=8880120808}}{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2007|isbn=8884405033}}{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film|publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=8860736269}}
Plot
Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Antony in the most delicate moments. The continuous alternation of the two brothers generates havoc, with Cleopatra increasingly confused about the contradictory behavior of the man.
Cast
- Totò as Totonno / Mark Antony
- Magali Noël as Cleopatra
- Franco Sportelli as Ahenobarbus
- Carlo Delle Piane as Caesarion
- Moira Orfei as Octavia
- Lia Zoppelli as Fulvia
- Gianni Agus as Senator Gaius Octavius
- Toni Ucci as Senator Publio Nasone
- Mario Castellani as Real Surgeon
- Pietro Carloni as Lepidus
- Nadine Sanders as Ancella di Cleopatra
- Ignazio Leone as Apollodoro
- Adriana Facchetti as Publia
- Franco Ressel as the Sicilian
- Dada Gallotti as Carmiana
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0057595}}
Category:1960s adventure comedy films
Category:Italian adventure comedy films
Category:Films directed by Fernando Cerchio
Category:Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
Category:Depictions of Cleopatra on film
Category:Depictions of Mark Antony on film
Category:Depictions of Augustus on film
Category:Films set in the Ptolemaic Kingdom
Category:Films with screenplays by Giovanni Grimaldi
Category:Sword-and-sandal films
Category:Cultural depictions of Caesarion
Category:1960s Italian-language films
Category:Cultural depictions of Lepidus
Category:Cultural depictions of Octavia the Younger
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