Two Nights with Cleopatra
Two Nights with Cleopatra Italian Due notti con Cleopatra is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Sophia Loren.
When Mark Antony comes back to Alexandria to fight a war, Cleopatra visits him secretly while her place at the palace is taken by Nisca, a girl who is so like her she can pass as her double, except for being blonde. It turns out that on one of the evenings on which Cleopatra has been swapped for her double, Cesare fails to notice this. Unaware of the exchange, Cesare spends the night with the girl who proves to be very fragile and sad.The next night Cesare is arrested for trying to hurt Cleopatra the real one but in reality the man just wanted to say hello. Intrigued by the fact that Cesare wears a ring identical to hers, Cleopatra makes him free and offers to spend the night with him, warning him that the next day he will die. Cesare, however, manages to get drunk and to free the queen Nisca, locked up in prison. The film ends with the two fleeing from Alexandria. ........
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