Queen of the Pirates
Cast & Crew
Mario Costa
Gianna Maria Canale
Massimo Serato
Scilla Gabel
Paul Müller
José Jaspé
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Synopsis
In the 16th century, the Duchy of Doruzzo is under the tyrannical rule of Duke Zulian and his daughter, Isabella. When an unjustly accused sea captain, Mirko, and young and fiery Sandra, who believes Mirko to be her father, are brought before the duke, he decides to hang Mirko and sell Sandra into a Turkish harem. They are freed, however, by Cesare, Count of Santa Croce, a nobleman who the duke hopes will wed Isabella. Sandra and Mirko embark on a career of piracy, and Cesare sets out to capture them. Instead he falls in love with Sandra and joins her in planning an assault on the duke's palace. As the pirates battle their way ashore, they are joined by the oppressed peasants, and the attack is successful. The duke is fatally wounded by Cesare but before dying confesses that Sandra is the rightful heiress to the duchy. Many years ago, he reveals, he ordered Mirko to kill her, but the sea captain spared the young girl's life and reared her as his daughter. Isabella retires to a convent, and Sandra, now the Duchess of Doruzzo, prepares to marry Cesare and right the wrongs committed by Zulian.
Director
Mario Costa
Cast
Gianna Maria Canale
Massimo Serato
Scilla Gabel
Paul Müller
José Jaspé
Livio Lorenzon
Giustino Durano
Moira Orfei
Andrea Aureli
Franco Fantasia
Nando Tamberlani
Raffaele Baldassarre
Giulio Battiferri
Luigi Marturano
Gianni Solaro
Anna Maria Mustari
Crew
Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni
John Byrne
Adriana Cassini
Renato Cinquini
Franco Fantasia
Maurizio Giustini
Ernesto Kromberg
Raffaele Masciocchi
Richard Mcnamara
Amedeo Mellone
Rino Merolle
Kurt Nachmann
Rolf Olsen
Ottavio Poggi
Ottavio Poggi
Carlo Rustichelli
Alessandro Sarandrea
Nino Stresa
Mario Tota
Film Details
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Notes
Opened in Rome in Eastmancolor in August 1960 as La venere dei pirati; running time: ca85 min; released in West Germany in April 1961 as Venus der Piraten; running time: 78 min. West German coproduction status uncertain.
