Massacre in the Black Forest

Massacre in the Black Forest
Directed by	Ferdinando Baldi Rudolf Nussgruber[1]
Screenplay by	Ferdinando Baldi Adriano Bolzoni Alessandro Ferrau[1]
Starring	Cameron Mitchell Antonella Lualdi Hans Von Borsody
Cinematography	Lucky Satson [1]
Edited by	Otello Colangeli[1]
Music by	Carlo Savina[1]
Production companies	Debora Film Avala Film Peter Carsten Productions[1]
Release dates	1967 (1967) (Italy) 3 February 1977 (1977-02-03) (West Germany)
Countries	Italy Yugoslavia West Germany[1]

Massacre in the Black Forest (German: Hermann der Cherusker – Die Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald) is a 1967 historical drama film set on the northeast frontier of the Roman Empire facing the area of Germania in A.D. 9. The film centers on Arminius, a chieftain of the Cherusci Germanic tribe (in what is now Lower Saxony), who drew three Roman legions into an ambush in the Teutoburg Forest, known as the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Cast

• Hans von Borsody as Arminius
• Antonella Lualdi as Thusnelda
• Cameron Mitchell as Consul Aulus Caecina (in German version: Aulus Colonna) [Character is based on real Roman suffect consul of 1 BC Aulus Caecina (Severus)]
• Beba Lončar as Livia, Aulus Caecina's lover
• Dieter Eppler as Rupert
• Peter Carsten as Sigmund
• Vladimir Medar as Segestes
• Remo de Angelis as Publius Quintilius Varus
• ??? as Drusus the Younger
• Aleksandar Gavric as Epamione, merchant
• Paul Windsor as Curio, Roman officer
• Beli Bolin as Roman legionary

Release

The film was released in 1967.[1]

Footnotes

1. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 115.

References

• Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908–1990. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-6291-6.

See also

• In the Shadow of the Eagles (dir. Ferdinando Baldi, 1966), with Cameron Mitchell, Beba Lončar, Dieter Eppler, Peter Carsten
• List of historical drama films
• List of films set in ancient Rome
• List of German films: 1960s
• Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

External links

• Stefan Noack: "Gebt mir meine Millionen wieder!" Der Spielfilm "Hermann der Cherusker" als Beispiel einer multinationalen Varusschlacht-Adaption in den 1960er u. 1970er Jahren, Berlin 2012. [1]
• Massacre in the Black Forest at IMDb
• Trailer on YouTube [2]