Strelsa Brown was born in 1919 in Tianjin, China. She was an actress, known for Κβο βάντις (1951), Saffo - Venere di Lesbo (1960) and Amor non ho! Però, però.. (1951). She died in 1976.
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
This short film is the only cinematographic experience of Alberto Moravia. It shows some typical themes of the writer: the bourgeois setting, the taste for detail, the eros and the violence that scratch indifference.
Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.
