L'EROE DI SPARTA
Rudolph Maté
(1962)
Italiano
La seconda guerra dei persiani contro la Grecia è in atto e Serse avanza col suo poderoso esercito. I rappresentanti degli stati greci a congresso ascoltano la parola di Temistocle e tra i pochi che raccolgono l'appello dell'alleanza c'è Leonida, re di Sparta. Leonida torna nella sua città per radunare l'esercito ma la festa religiosa delle Carnee ne impedisce la partenza. Solo 300 opliti della guardia reale seguono il loro re e, insieme alle scarse truppe fornite dagli alleati, s'attestano al passo obbligato delle Termopili. Nell'urto fra i due eserciti così impari di numero, la cavalleria persiana viene respinta e respinto è il secondo attacco degli "Immortali". Serse già medita di tornare indietro, ma un pastore del luogo, Efialte, tradisce i greci e, attraverso un sentiero ignoto, conduce le schiere persiane alle spalle dei nemici.
English
Xerxes I of Persia leads a vast army of soldiers into Europe to defeat the small city-states of Greece, not only to fulfill the idea of "one world ruled by one master", but also to avenge the defeat of his father at the Battle of Marathon ten years before. Accompanying him are Artemisia I, the Queen of Halicarnassus, who beguiles Xerxes with her feminine charm, and Demaratus, an exiled king of Sparta, to whose warnings Xerxes pays little heed.
In Corinth, Themistocles of Athens wins the support of the Greek allies and convinces both the delegates and the Spartan representative, Leonidas I, to grant Sparta leadership of their forces. Outside the hall, Leonidas and Themistocles agree to fortify the pass at Thermopylae until the rest of the army arrives. After this, Leonidas learns of the Persian advance and travels to Sparta to spread the news.
In Sparta, his fellow king Leotychidas is fighting a losing battle with the Ephors over a religious festival that is due to take place, with members of the council arguing that the army should wait until after the festival is over before it marches, while Leotychidas fears that by that time the Persians may have conquered Greece. Leonidas decides to march north immediately with his personal bodyguard of 300 men, who are exempt from the decisions of the Ephors and the Gerousia. They are subsequently reinforced by Thespians led by Demophilus and other Greek allies.
After several days of fighting, Xerxes grows angry as his army is repeatedly routed by the Greeks, with the Spartans in the forefront. Leonidas receives word that, by decision of the Ephors, the remainder of the Spartan army, rather than joining him as he had expected, will only fortify the isthmus in the Peloponnese and will advance no further. The Greeks constantly beat back the Persians, and following the defeat of his personal bodyguard in battle against the Spartans, Xerxes begins to consider withdrawing to Sardis until he can equip a larger force at a later date. As he prepares to withdraw, however, Xerxes receives word from the treacherous and avaricious Ephialtes of a goat-track through the mountains that will enable his forces to attack the Greeks from the rear. Promising to reward Ephialtes for his betrayal, Xerxes sends his army onward.
Once Leonidas realizes he will be surrounded, he sends away the Greek allies to alert the cities to the south. Being too few to hold the pass, the Spartans instead attack the Persian front, where Xerxes is nearby. Leonidas is killed in the melée. Meanwhile the Thespians, who had refused to leave, are overwhelmed (offscreen) while defending the rear. Surrounded, the surviving Spartans refuse Xerxes's demand to give up Leonidas' body. They are then annihilated by arrowfire.
After this, narration states that the Battle of Salamis and the Battle of Plataea end the Persian invasion, which could not have been organized without the time bought by the 300 Spartans who defied the tyranny of Xerxes at Thermopylae. One of the final images of the film is the memorial bearing the epigram of Simonides of Ceos, which is recited.
The 300 Spartans
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Produced by Rudolph Maté
George St. George
Written by George St. George
Gian Paolo Callegari
Remigio Del Grosso
Giovanni d'Eramo
Ugo Liberatore
Music by Manos Hadjidakis
Cinematography Geoffrey Unsworth
Editing by Jerry Webb
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date USA August 1962
Running time 109 mins.
Country United States
Language English Italiano Espanol
Genere History
Budget $8,500,000
Box office $76,520,00
Cast
* Richard Egan as King Leonidas, Agiad King of Sparta
* Ralph Richardson as Themistocles of Athens
* Diane Baker as Ellas, daughter of Pentheus and niece of Queen Gorgo
* Barry Coe as Phyllon, son of Grellas, a Spartan in love with Ellas
* Anna Synodinou as Queen Gorgo, Leonidas' wife
* David Farrar as King Xerxes of the Persian Empire
* Anne Wakefield as Artemisia, Queen of Halicarnassus
* Ivan Triesault as Demaratus, exiled Euripontid ex-King of Sparta
* Nikos Papakonstantinou (1920-1993) as Mardonius, Persian general
* Donald Houston as Hydarnes, Persian general leader of the Immortals
* Robert Brown as Pentheus, Spartan soldier second-in-command to Leonidas
* John Crawford as Agathon, Spartan spy and soldier
* Charles Fawcett as Megistias, Spartan priest
* Kieron Moore as Ephialtes of Trachis
* Yorgos Moutsios as Grellas, a Spartan in Xerxes' camp
* Dimos Starenios as Samos, a goatherd living in the vicinity of Thermopylae
* Anna Raftopoulou as Toris, Samos' wife
* John Contes as Artovadus, Persian general
* Michalis Nikolinakos as Myron, a Spartan
* Sandro Giglio as Xenathon, a Spartan Ephor
* Laurence Naismith as unnamed Greek delegate
* Marietta Flemotomos as unnamed Greek woman at shield ceremony
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