| Slave Women of Corinth | |
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| Directed by | Mario Bonnard |
| Written by | Mario Bonnard Alberto Manca Mario di Nardo Sergio Leone Ugo Moretti |
| Starring | Isabelle Corey Anthony Steffen |
| Cinematography | Tino Santoni |
| Music by | Giovanni Fusco |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Slave Women of Corinth (Italian: Afrodite, dea dell'amore, aka Aphrodite, Goddess of Love) is a 1958 Italian epic historical drama film written and directed by Mario Bonnard.[1][2]
Antigonus, archon of Corinth, wants to build a magnificent temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, for which the people are oppressed by new and very high taxes. The sculptor Demetrius, asked to make the face of the goddess Diana, falls in love with a slave, the Christian Lerna. With the arrival of the plague the people are increasingly discontented and Antigonus has easy game accusing the Christians who are immediately arrested and sentenced to death. The Roman troops arrive to restore order, saving the two lovers Demetrius and Lerna.
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