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Massacre in the Black Forest

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Massacre in the Black Forest
Directed by
Screenplay by
Starring
CinematographyLucky Satson [1]
Edited byOtello Colangeli[1]
Music byCarlo 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

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Release

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The film was released in 1967.[1]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 115.

References

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

See also

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  • 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]