Sword-and-Sandal (2019)

Sword-and-Sandal (2019) - Documentary Movies 54 minutes. Peplum: el cine de espadas y sandalias, Peplum, „kino miecza i sandałów”. Czemu zawdzięcza swój sukces?, Péplum: muscles, glaives et fantasmes, Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic, Da “Quo vadis” a “Il gladiatore”: la storia del peplum. 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. movie business, bible, bodybuilding, hollywood, peplum, religious film, mccarthyism, cold war propaganda, early television