Musings!

Hildegard Knef, as Catherine, and Giacomo Rossi Stuart in togas from CATHERINE OF RUSSIA (1963)

Directed by Umberto Lenzi, this is pretty solid PEPLUM 'historical' drama. It has all the trappings of a PEPLUM movie, including cast. Hildegard didn't act in many PEPLUM movies but Giacomo is a regular. There's also Sergio Fantoni, Enzo Fiermonte, Tullio Altamura, etc. It's always fun to see a pulpy Italian version of historical figures. In this scene, they have a Roman party of sorts, which a nod to the genre. For now, there's no clean pristine copy of this film in English. It was released on DVD in France but there's no English audio. There is an English version from a Greek DVD but it's pan and scan with Greek subs. Oh well..