Fabiola (1949 film)

Fabiola
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alessandro Blasetti
Produced by	Salvo D'Angelo
Starring	Michèle Morgan Henri Vidal Michel Simon
Music by	Enzo Masetti
Cinematography	Mario Craveri Ubaldo Marelli
Edited by	Mario Serandrei
Production company	Universalia Film Filmsonor Productions
Release dates	3 March 1949 1951 (UK & U.S.)
Running time	164 min
Country	Italy / France
Language	Italian

Fabiola (UK title: The Fighting Gladiator) is a 1949 Italian language motion picture historical drama directed by Alessandro Blasetti, very loosely based on the 1854 novel Fabiola by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal and Michel Simon. It tells the story of the Roman Empire in which Christianity is growing around the fourth century AD.

Principal cast

• Michèle Morgan as Fabiola
• Henri Vidal as Rual
• Michel Simon as Fabio
• Louis Salou as Fulvio
• Elisa Cegani as Sira
• Massimo Girotti as Sebastiano
• Gino Cervi as Quadrato
• Sergio Tofano as Luciano
• Rina Morelli as Faustina
• Paolo Stoppa as Manlio Valerio
• Carlo Ninchi as Galba
• Franco Interlenghi as Corvino
• Guglielmo Barnabò as Antonio Leto
• Aldo Silvani as Cassiano
• Silvana Jachino as Lucilla
• Goliarda Sapienza as Cecilia
• Virgilio Riento as Pietro
• Ludmilla Dudarova as Giulia
• Gabriele Ferzetti as Claudio
• Nerio Bernardi as Imperial messenger

Reception

The film earned an estimated $1,050,000 in rentals at the US box office in 1951.^[1]

See also

• List of historical drama films
• List of films set in ancient Rome

References

External links

• Fabiola at Films de France
• Fabiola at the Internet Movie Database
• Fabiola at AllMovie
• Fabiola at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database