Sword-and-Sandal (2018)

Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes | France| Germany

The silent cinema had already created colossal movies based on ancient civilizations, but it is in the 1950s when peplums reach their apogee in Hollywood. Then, peplums take root at Cinecittà studios, in Rome, where cheap cinema is produced with bodybuilders as heroes. The genre decays in the late 1960s, but rises again decades later, when a modern classic is released in 2000.

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Description

Director

Jérôme Korkikian

Stars

Julien Bocher
Himself - Narrator (voice)

Hervé Lacroix
Himself - Narrator (voice)

Romain Debord
Himself - Narrator (voice)

Douglas Wick
Himself - Producer

David Franzoni
Himself - Screenwriter

Laurent Aknin
Himself - Historian

Pierre Baron
Himself - Historian

Claude Aziza
Himself - Historian

Floren Fourcart
Himself - Historian

Lou Ferrigno
Himself - Actor

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Keywords

movie business, hollywood, mccarthyism, bible, low-budget, bodybuilding, cinecittà studios, sword and sandal, peplum, religious film, cold war propaganda, early television, mythological film

Production

Centre National de la Cinématographie, ITV Studios France, ARTE GEIE

Actor

Julien Bocher, Hervé Lacroix, Romain Debord, Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Laurent Aknin, Pierre Baron, Claude Aziza, Floren Fourcart, Lou Ferrigno, John Milius, Oliver Stone, Michael Douglas, Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott, Charlton Heston, Cecil B. DeMille, Henri Chrétien, William Wyler, Steve Reeves, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elizabeth Taylor

Creators

Olivier Virmont (Sound Engineer), Jérôme Korkikian (Director), Guillaume Tunzini (Director of Photography), Aurélien Bony (Sound Mixer), Heike Lettau (Producer), Caroline Laub (Producer), Franck Firmin Guion (Producer), Jean-Yves Charpin (Director of Photography), Christophe Joly (Sound Engineer), Olivier Korkikian (Editor), Fabien Husson (Producer), Nathalie Ducrin (Producer), Maximilien Mathevon (Original Music Composer)

Alternative titles

Mit Schwertern und Sandalen (DE)
Peplum: el cine de espadas y sandalias (ES)
Péplum: muscles, glaives et fantasmes (FR)
Da “Quo vadis” a “Il gladiatore”: la storia del peplum (IT)
Peplum, „kino miecza i sandałów”. Czemu zawdzięcza swój sukces? (PL)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic (US)

Release dates

15.04.2019 (GB)
14.04.2019 (IT)
21.04.2019 (FR)
14.04.2019 (FR)
21.04.2019 (DE)
14.04.2019 (DE)
14.04.2019 (ES)
14.04.2019 (PL)