Caligula et Messaline / Caligola e Messalina / Caligula and Messalina / Caligula's Perversio
Year: 1981
Country: Italy, France
Language: Russian
Add. languages: German
Genre: Erotic, Drama
Duration: 01:48:12
Cast: Vladimir Brajovic, Betty Roland, Françoise Blanchard, Raul Cabrera, Gino Turini, Angelo Arquilla, Piotr Stanislas, Vincent Lo Monaco, Fanny Magier, Laurence Lovall, Antonio Passalia, Dominique Irissou, Marie-Noëlle Arnoult, Silvie Dezabauneix, Kathy Sadik
Description: The laurels of the Italian erotomaniac Tinto Brass and the pornographer Bob Guccione, who in 1979 showed the world the pretentious porno-thrash blockbuster Caligula, which gained notoriety (although black PR is still PR), and good box office receipts, haunted the Italian thrash maker Bruno Mattei, who in 1981, with the collaboration of Antonio Passaglia and Jean-Jacques Renon co-directed by him, released a semi-official sequel to the work of Brass & Guccione called Caligula and Messalina, which tells about the relationship, mainly below the waist, between the bloodthirsty Boot and the ancient Roman sex bomb Messalina, along the way showing the ugly reality of the then Roman Empire. However, either Mattei was afraid of excessive censorship attacks, or simply fancied himself a serious filmmaker, but "Caligula and Messalina" turned out to be a very insipid, sometimes boring and dull, low-budget peplum, the plot of which is occasionally brightened up with interspersed action movies and light erotica, which is why among all versions of Caligula's stories, even frankly pornographic or wildly outrageous (like "Caligula: The Untold Story" by D, Amato), the film "Caligula and Messalina" looks simply damp and unintelligible, largely due to the lack of good and able to really to play actors, because Gino Turini in the role of Caligula looks unconvincing, he never grows up to the level of Malcolm McDowell, in principle, and the actress Betty Roland, although she tries in every possible way to be dramatic in the role of Messalina, nothing good comes out of these attempts. The secondary characters of the picture are not remembered at all, as well as the not always accurate scenery, although the work of the cameraman Luis Ciccarese can boast of a touch of aesthetics in the tape both in showing scenes of violence and in erotic exercises.
Not bad in the picture and the soundtrack from the composers Giacomo and Gianni Del, Orso, which sounds very melodic.
Video quality: DVD9
Video Format: DVD Video
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: AC3
Video: MPEG2 PAL 4:3 720x576 VBR
Audio: AC3 48000Hz stereo 192Kbps RU
Audio: AC3 48000Hz stereo 192Kbps GE
Audio: AC3 48000Hz stereo 192Kbps GE
File Size: 4.41 GB
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