Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.

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Chelo Alonso

Princess Miriam (archive footage)

Susy Andersen

Tamar (archive footage)

Ennio Balbo

Theodoto (archive footage)

Lex Barker

Dragon Drakut (archive footage)

John Drew Barrymore

Sabaku prince of Bubastis (archive footage)

Maurizio Costanzo

Self (voice)

Franca Bettoia

Samoa (archive footage)

Rossano Brazzi

Archimede (archive footage)

Pierre Brice

Dionysus (archive footage)

Clara Calamai

Ginevra (archive footage)

Ernesto Calindri

Inigo de Cordoba (archive footage)

Gianna Maria Canale

Consuelo (archive footage)

Claudia Cardinale

Pauline Bonaparte

Anita Ekberg

Self - Zenobia, Queen of Palmira (archive footage)

Virna Lisi

Self - Julia (archive footage)

Debra Paget

Self - Shila - Cleopatra's Daughter (archive footage)

Sophia Loren

Self (archive footage)

Milly Vitale

Self - Cherata (archive footage)

Ava Gardner

Self - Maria Cayetana, Duchess of Alba (archive footage)

Martine Carol

Self - Joséphine de Beauharnais (archive footage)

Jeanne Crain

Self - Nefertiti (archive footage)

Linda Cristal

Self - Akis (archive footage)

Luisa Ferida

Self - Kavaora, madre di Tundra & Tundra (archive footage)

Dorian Gray

Self - Antiope (archive footage)

Sylva Koscina

Self - Clorinda (archive footage)

Anne Heywood

Self - Virginia de Leyva (archive footage)

Margaret Lee

Self - Amanda (archive footage)

Tina Louise

Self - Diana/Self - Artemide/Self - Lucrezia (archive footage)

Liana Orfei

Self - Camilla - Queen of the Volsci (archive footage)

Pascale Petit

Self - Cleopatra (archive footage)

Eleonora Rossi Drago

Špela Rozin

Jacqueline Sassard

Edy Vessel

Totò

Osvaldo Valenti

Daniele Vargas

Nino Taranto

Gordon Scott

Akim Tamiroff

Massimo Serato

Steve Reeves

Francisco Rabal

Jack Palance

Corrado Pani

Pierre Mondy

Annibale Ninchi

Amedeo Nazzari

Ettore Manni

Cameron Mitchell

Guy Madison

Alberto Lupo

Paolo Gozlino

Giuliano Gemma

Ray Danton

Massimo Girotti

Anthony Franciosa

Ken Clark

Mark Damon

Antonio Centa

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