''100 Horsemen'' ( it, I cento cavalieri, es, Los cien caballeros, german: Die hundert Ritter, also known as ''Son of El Cid'') is a 1964 Italian-Spanish-German historical-adventure film directed by
Vittorio Cottafavi
Vittorio Cottafavi (30 January 1914 – 14 December 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1943 and 1985. His film '' Il diavolo sulle colline'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at th ...
.
In 2004 it was restored and shown as part of the retrospective "Storia Segreta del Cinema Italiano: Italian Kings of the Bs" at the
61st Venice International Film Festival
The 61st annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 1 and 11 September 2004. The festival opened with Steven Spielberg's ''The Terminal'', and closed with Katsuhiro Otomo's '' Steamboy''. The Golden Lion was awarded to the film ' ...
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Cast
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Mark Damon
Mark Damon (born April 22, 1933) is an American film actor and Film producer, producer. He became noted for roles in films like Roger Corman's House of Usher (film), ''House of Usher'', before moving to Italy and becoming a notable Western (gen ...
as Don Fernando Herrera y Menendez
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Antonella Lualdi
Antonella Lualdi ( gr, Αντονέλλα Λουάλντι, born Antonietta de Pascale; 6 July 1931) is an Italian actress and singer. She appeared in many Italian and French films in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in Claude Autant-Lara's film '' ...
as Sancha Ordoñez
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Gastone Moschin
Gastone Moschin (8 June 1929 – 4 September 2017) was an Italian stage, television and film actor.
Career
Born in San Giovanni Lupatoto (Veneto), Moschin graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico and then began hi ...
as Frate Carmelo
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Wolfgang Preiss
Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 – 27 November 2002) was a German theatre, film and television actor.
The son of a teacher, Preiss studied philosophy, German, and drama in the early 1930s. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlen ...
as Sheik Abengalbon
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Barbara Frey
Barbara Frey (born 1941) is a German stage and film actress.Von Dassanowsky p.184 She was married to the actor Mark Damon.
Selected filmography
* ' (1958)
* ' (1960)
* ''What Is Father Doing in Italy?'' (1961)
* '' Love at Twenty'' (1962)
* ''I M ...
as Laurencia
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Rafael Alonso
Rafael Alonso Ochoa (5 July 1920 – 24 October 1998) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than 120 films and television shows between 1951 and 1998.
Selected filmography
* ''Malibran's Song'' (1951)
* ''Welcome Mr. Marshall!'' (1953) ...
as on Jaime Badaloz
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Hans Nielsen as Alfonso Ordoñez
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Manuel Gallardo
Manolo A. Gallardo (born 13 June 1900, date of death unknown) was an Argentine boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he was eliminated in the second round of the middleweight class after losing his fight to Roger Brousse
Roger ...
as Halaf
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Mario Feliciani
Mario Feliciani (12 March 1918 – 11 August 2008) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Life and career
Born in Milan, after completing his classical education Feliciani attended the Accademia dei filodrammatici obtaining the diploma. He ...
as Ambassador of the Sheik
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Arnoldo Foà
Arnoldo Foà (24 January 1916 – 11 January 2014) was an Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 2014.
Biography
Foà was born in Ferrara, Italy, to a Jewish fa ...
as Don Gonzalo Herrera y Menendez
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Aldo Sambrell
Alfredo Sánchez Brell (23 February 1931 – 10 July 2010), known as Aldo Sambrell, was a Spanish actor, director, and producer who appeared in over 150 films between 1961 and 1996.
Biography
Sambrell was born in Vallecas, Madrid, on 23 Februa ...
as Alfaqui
References
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1964 films
1960s historical adventure films
Italian historical adventure films
German historical adventure films
Films directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
Spanish historical adventure films
West German films
1960s Italian-language films
Films set in the 11th century
1960s Italian films
1960s Spanish films
1960s German films
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