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Genres:
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Adult /
Drama /
History
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Actors:
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Peter O'Toole,
Paolo Bonacelli,
Leopoldo Trieste,
Mirella D'Angelo,
Giancarlo Badessi,
Teresa Ann Savoy,
Guido Mannari,
Bruno Brive,
Adriana Asti,
Rick Parets,
Paula Mitchell,
Malcolm McDowell,
John Gielgud,
John Steiner,
Helen Mirren
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Duration:
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156 min.
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Rating:
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(4.8/10)1120.5
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Plot Summary:
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The rise and bomb out of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the insane methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent psychoneurosis of his reign - he gives his horse civil commission and humiliates and executes anyone who precise slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a ineffective infringement of England earlier congress an make away ruin. There are various versions of the dim, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute variety to the acclaimed 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the im... agination (be that as it may the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not comprehend the vital dash members).
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Caligula
Sublimely ridiculous porno-togarama from Tinto Brass. A gob-smacking combination of luvvies, ancient Rome and 'Penthouse' magazine
The counter-culture is forever striving for legitimacy and, ultimately, ubiquity. By the same token, those capitalists operating in the margins, be they the spheres of organised crime or the sex industry, crave bourgeois respectability and cultural credibility - which only generates even more bucketfuls of filthy lucre.
So during the 1970s, while punk was shaking The Man's hand over walnut oak boardroom tables, 'old-fashioned' industrialist pornographers (as distinct from Walerian Borowczyk or Paul Morrissey and his transgressive Factory fare) could be found busily penetrating the juicy cavities of mainstream cinema.
A year after 'Play...
CENSORED
THIS FILM HAS BEEN HEAVILY CENSORED. THERE WERE MORE EXPLICIT SCENES WHEN IT WAS SHOWN ON CHANNEL 4.
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