Il Figlio di Cleopatra - Coriolano eroe senza patria

Digitmovies, with collaboration of C.A.M. srl a division of Gruppo Sugar, continues to explore the territory of the Italian Peplum releasing for the first absolute time on CD, as volume XXIII, two OST by Carlo Rustichelli from two 1964 movies: “Il figlio di Cleopatra” (aka “Son of Cleopatra”) and “Coriolano, Eroe senza patria” (aka "Thunder of battle"). “Il figlio di Cleopatra” was directed by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Mark Damon, Scilla Gabel, Arnoldo Foà, Corrado Annicelli, Franco Fantasia, Livio Lorenzon, Alberto Lupo, Paolo Gozlino, Attilio Severini, Alberto Cevenini. El Kebir (Damon), a natural son of Caesar and Cleopatra, rebels to Petronius, the Roman governor placed in Egypt by the emperor Octavian. After gathering some tribes of nomads, kidnaps the governor’s daughter, to win his cause, but Petronius doesn't yield. Octavian will fix things. “Coriolano, Eroe senza patria” (aka "Thunder of battle"), was directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Gordon Scott, Alberto Lupo, Lilla Brignone, Aldo Bufi Landi, Nerio Bernardi, Peter Shepherd, Tullio Altamura, Pierre Cressoy, Nello Pazzafini, Philippe Hersent, Rosalba Blacks. The legendary General Coriolanus (Scott), falsely accused and banished from Rome, leads a revolt against the Urbe so the truth will triumph. The OST of “Il figlio di Cleopatra” derives from the recording session, in full stereo master tapes kept until today in excellent condition. Carlo Rustichelli has written an epic main theme with Deguello style for trumpet and orchestra for the character of El Kebir. The plot is underscored by music of Eastern flavor and mysterious passages (Tr.2,Tr.3,Tr.4,Tr.9,Tr.10 and Tr.11) interspersed with martial music like a triumphant march (Tr.5) and a rhythmic ostinato for a chase scene (Tr.6). The author has also written a delicate love theme introduced in Tr.12 and reprised in Tr.18, and Tr.22. The OST of “Coriolano, Eroe senza patria” contained library music composed by Maestro Rustichelli for other movies like “I Giganti della Tessaglia” (available on Digitmovies CDDM 108), but for this CD we include only the original material especially written and recorded for this movie in mono: five very romantic themes, the love theme, and a heroic theme for the character of Coriolanus, a man unjustly accused of things he has not committed and who is seeking to recover his life. A proper rescue and preservation of Italian Silver Age and of the Music Art of Carlo Rustichelli.