The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent film era to the present day.
Cast
Julien Bocher
Self - Narrator (voice)
Hervé Lacroix
Self - Narrator (voice)
Damien Boisseau
Self - Narrator (voice)
Douglas Wick
Self - Film Producer
David Franzoni
Self - Screenwriter
Laurent Aknin
Self - Historian
Pierre Baron
Self - Historian
Claude Aziza
Self - Historian
Floren Fourcart
Self - Historian
Lou Ferrigno
Self - Actor
John Milius
Self - Filmmaker
Oliver Stone
Self - Filmmaker
Michael Douglas
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Russell Crowe
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Ridley Scott
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Charlton Heston
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Henri Chrétien
Self - Inventor (archive footage)
William Wyler
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Steve Reeves
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Crew
Jérôme Korkikian
Director, Writer
Olivier Korkikian
Editor
Guillaume Tunzini
Director of Photography
Jean-Yves Charpin
Director of Photography
Arnaud Lambert
Color Grading
Heike Lettau
Producer
Caroline Laub
Producer
Fabien Husson
Producer
Nathalie Ducrin
Producer
Radia Bouzid
Post Production Supervisor
Romain Debord
Post Production Supervisor
Aurélien Bony
Sound Mixer
Christophe Joly
Sound Engineer
Olivier Virmont
Sound Engineer
Maximilien Mathevon
Original Music Composer
Franck Firmin Guion
Delegated Producer
Andrea Prokesova
Researcher
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