

“History's Greatest Epic...On the Screen at Last!”
A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, focusing on Ulysses's ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, where he faces various mythical challenges while his wife Penelope fends off suitors.
Directed by Mario Camerini
User score
252 votes





Released
October 6, 1954
1h 40m
Italian
Budget → Revenue
$500K → $2.9M

Kirk Douglas
Ulysses

Silvana Mangano
Circe / Penelope

Anthony Quinn
Antinous

Rossana Podestà
Nausicaa

Jacques Dumesnil
Alcinous

Daniel Ivernel
Eurylochus

Sylvie
Eurycleia

Franco Interlenghi
Telemachus

Elena Zareschi
Cassandra

Evi Maltagliati
Anticlea

Ludmilla Dudarova
Arete

Tania Weber
Leucantho

Piero Lulli
Achilles

Ferruccio Stagni
Mentor

Alessandro Fersen
Diomedes
Oscar Andriani
Calops
Umberto Silvestri
Polyphemus / Krakos

Gualtiero Tumiati
Laertes

Teresa Pellati
Melantho

Mario Feliciani
Eurymachus