A Queen for Caesar

A Queen for Caesar (1962)

Una regina per Cesare

Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.

Date of release
1962-12-22
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Adventure, History
Director
Piero Pierotti, Viktor Tourjansky

Casting

Interesting facts

A Queen for Caesar is a 1962 Italian-French historical drama film directed by Piero Pierotti and Victor Tourjansky. Unlike other films about Caesar and Cleopatra, this film focuses entirely on the dynastic struggle within Egypt leading up to the arrival of Caesar, and in fact, we only see him in the closing scene of the film when he arrives at the Ptolemaic palace in Alexandria. Set in Egypt in 48 BC, it stars Pascale Petit as Cleopatra, George Ardisson as Achillas, Rik Battaglia as Lucius Septimius, Corrado Pani as Ptolemy XIII, Franco Volpi as Apollodorus, Akim Tamiroff as Pompey, and Gordon Scott as Julius Caesar.

Production

Budgeted at a few hundred thousand dollars, A Queen for Caesar was completed before the release of Fox's Cleopatra.

In a 2025 interview, Pascale Petit remembered the making of the film: "It's a wonderful memory. I'm a huge fan of Antiquity, and it just so happens that the woman I admire most in the world is Cleopatra. So, as an actress, I was honored to portray her on screen. The filming took place in a studio in Rome, like the Cleopatra film with Elizabeth Taylor. The Italians had even bought some of the sets and costumes.

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