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Genres:
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Drama /
History /
Romance /
War
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Release:
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Director:
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Roger Young
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Actors:
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Peter O'Toole,
Ken Duken,
Benjamin Sadler,
Juan Diego Botto,
Vittoria Belvedere,
Russell Barr,
Martina Stella,
Valeria D'Obici,
Michele Bevilacqua,
Charlotte Rampling
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Duration:
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90 min.
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Rating:
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(6.2/10)91.5
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Plot Summary:
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In 42 BC Rome is in the halfway of a lay war. Together with his mistress AGRIPPA, the teenaged Augustus goes to Spain in order to relief JULIUS CAESAR in his struggle against the troops of POMPEY. Even though they are outnumbered, they oversee to prevail over Pompey. Caesar honours his adopted son Augustus with a commemorative entrance into Rome and then sends him to Greece together with his friends Agrippa and Maecenas. There, Augustus hears the statement of Caesar's assassination and he returns to Rome with his friends. Secretly in Rome, he is able to gain both the ratify of the people and p... olitical power. In his struggle with the conspirators against Caesar he finds an partner in MARC ANTONY. Marc Antony not only pursues BRUTUS and CASSIUS, he also initiates a sign of executions which practically eliminates the old Roman ruling grade. Number those who are killed is the husband of LIVIA DRUSILLA, a maid with whom Augustus had been in fondle as a young man. In all respects a combination of good fortune and chance, Augustus and Marc Antony are masterful to defeat the forces of Brutus and Cassius at the battle of Phillipi. But now Augustus has to share his empire with Marc Antony who, in the meantime, has become the lover of the Egyptian beauty queen CLEOPATRA. Augustus declares warfare on both of them and after a successful military campaign he becomes the exclusive ruler of the Roman Empire. During his rule, Rome not only experiences a period of peace and prosperity, it is also an era in which both subterfuges and customs flourish. His different wife Livia Drusilla becomes his most effective political advisor. It is she who discovers that IULLUS (the son of Marc Antony and lover of Augustus' daughter JULIA) is plotting to murder the emperor.
The aching for struggle seeing that power in the just ecstatic of Antique Rome is on. Its at the outset emperor, Caesar Augustus faces the many challenges of governorship. On story hand there is his beautiful and admired daughter Julia who cannot bring herself to accept her destiny and on the other he had his stepson, the unwilling Tiberius who is in the running to be emperor after him. Iullus Antonius, son of Augustus' foe Mark Antony, who is in love with Julia is determined to quest after revenge during his own get's death near manslaughter Augustus and save Julia and her sons for the lot of end that will certainly be bestowed on them by Augustus' trouble, Livia.
Caesar Augustus receives the tragic news that his best friend and commander of his legions, Agrippa has died leaving behind his two sons Gaius and Lucius and his innocent wife, Julia who is also Augustus' daughter. In trying to convince Julia to fit together her stepbrother Tiberius, Augustus tells of how he and Agrippa managed to overcome Stamp Antony and Cleopatra with the pirate of Maecenas to happen to the most great men in the midwife precisely.Read more Less
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