SEMIRAMIS, COURTESAN OF BABYLON (1954)--in German with English Subtitles

This is a 1954 Italian production set in the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the year 600 BC. This film, also known as QUEEN OF BABYLON, is based upon the legends of the Assyrian consort, Shammuramat. Semiramis, a beautiful peasant girl, is taken as a wife of an oppressive King, although she loves a Chaldean. According to the film Semiramis and the Chaldean overthrow the King, and under her, Babylon reaches one of its periods of greatest splendor.