Hercules conquers Atlantis

Movie
German title	Hercules conquers Atlantis
Original title	Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide
Country of production	Italy , France
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1961
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Vittorio Cottafavi
script	Vittorio Cottafavi Sandro Continenza
production	Achille Piazzi
music	Gino Marinuzzi Armando Trovajoli
camera	Carlo Carlini
cut	Mario Serandrei
occupation
Reg Park : Heracles Fay Spain : Queen Antinea of ​​Atlantis Ettore Manni : King Androkles of Thebes Luciano Marin : Hylus Laura Altan : Ismene Salvatore Furnari : Timoteus Mimmo Palmara : Castor Mario Valdemarin : Gabor Mario Petri : Zenith Mino Doro : King of Megara Enrico Maria Salerno : King of Ambracia Gian Maria Volonté : King of Sparta Alessandro Sperli : King of Athens Ivo Garrani : King of Megalia

Hercules conquers Atlantis (original title: Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide ) is an Italian sandal film by Vittorio Cottafavi from 1961.

action

Androkles, King of Thebes, Hercules, his son Illo and the faithful Timoteus leave after Greece is threatened by an uncanny power. The galley that transports the warriors capsizes and King Androkles is led into the "chamber of oblivion". Hercules ends up on an island where he can defeat a monster and save Ismene. Ismene is the daughter of Antinea, Queen of Atlantis, to whom they arrive. In the palace they find Androkles. Hercules survives several assassinations by the queen and finds a magical stone in a cave on which sunlight falls through the work of Hercules, releasing forces that destroy Atlantis.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an "expensively produced monumental epic, the expense of which was disproportionate to the content" . The staging is a "heroic saga in the superficial comic style."

"A disrespectful script, comic strip episodes, harmless violence and the artificially splendid costumes and sets come together to create an entertaining example of that fine instinct that Cottafavi (...) seems to have for this type of cinema."

- Monthly Film Bulletin .

"The initial brawl of the Hercules cronies is so enchantingly staged and recorded with such a nimble camera that I prefer it without hesitation to the stiff pathos in Eisenstein's much-vaunted battle on Lake Peipus ."

- Film review (magazine) No. 6, 1962.

Web links

• Hercules and the Captive Women in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hercules conquers Atlantis with a detailed synopsis and review on Peplumania.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hercules conquers Atlantis. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .