The Cave of the Golden Rose 3

The Cave of the Golden Rose 3 (1993)

Fantaghirò 3

A kiss of love will break the spell

The powerful evil wizard Tarabas gets knowledge about a prophecy that a king's child will defeat him. So he sends out his army of dead soldiers to kidnap all royal children. When the soldiers attack Fantaghiro's castle to steal the babies of her sisters, the battle seems to be lost until she discovers the secret to defeat the solders but by doing that she loses Romualdo. Now Fantaghiro must find the evil wizard Tarabas and convince him to break the spell and bring back Romualdo.

Date of release
1993-12-20
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (105)
Runtime
3h 20m
Genres
Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Director
Lamberto Bava
Collection
The Cave of the Golden Rose Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Fantaghirò 3 is the third film from the Fantaghirò series. It was directed by Lamberto Bava, starring Alessandra Martines as the title character. It originally aired on television in 1993 as a two-parter, and hence is alternately titled as a double-set of Fantaghirò 5 and Fantaghirò 6 in certain releases. Kim Rossi Stuart, who played the hero in the previous two films, returned in this film but his role was much reduced.

Production and release

Of all the films in the series, Fantaghirò 3 is the favourite one of both by the director Lamberto Bava and the writer Gianni Romoli, as the story gives more horror vibes. Tarabas' character was born from Romoli being a fan of the comic book series Dylan Dog, where a character of this name appears in one story.

Fantaghirò 3 was filmed over six weeks of Summer 1993 in the former Czechoslovakia. In an unexcepted problem were torrential rains going on almost uninterruptedly for the entire time of the shooting. Some of the film's special effects were created using computer-generated imagery resources similar to these used for Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Kim Rossi Stuart categorically refused to reprise his role as Romualdo, so his character's scenes in the third and the fourth films were created using old footage, except two short scenes in the third film on which he grudgingly agreed on. Nicholas Rogers in the role of Tarabas also caused problems, as he had declared during his audition that he was able to ride horses but as soon as the shooting began, he could not even mount a horse.

The film premiered on Canale 5 during Christmas 1993. It was later dubbed into multiple languages for foreign television broadcasts and released on home video (VHS and DVD) in Italy and in several other countries. Fantaghirò 3 and both of its prequels were recut (reduced and intersected with each other) into a 200-minute compilation film titled La meravigliosa storia di Fantaghirò ("The Wonderful Story of Fantaghirò") in 1995.

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