Imperium: Nero
Opis filmu
Opis oryginalny: angielski
As a young boy, future roman emperor Nero witnesses the insanity Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his Agrippina the Younger. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have to die first. She accepts the proposal. Back in Rome, Nero, now being raised by emperor Claudius after Caligula's death, Agrippina returns. She poisons Claudius' food and Nero becomes emperor. At first, Nero cuts taxes and introduces successful programs and invades Great Britain. Soon he meets a beautiful slave named Claudia Acte, and marries her, throwing off his engagement with Claudius' daughter, Claudia Octavia, telling her she can marry someone she will be happy with. Heartbroken, she arrives at an island and kills herself. Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome. He divorces Acte, and forces the citizens to watch hour long recitals, and at one of these, accidentally kills his new pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina. He kills several members of the Roman Senate and orders his mother to be stabbed, where she says: "Strike the womb, for that is what bore him." Nero's madness soon causes a riot, causing himself to flee the city in disguise, and slit his wrists under the saddened embrace of Claudia Acte, his once passionate lover.
Obsada
- Francesco Venditti jako Britannicus
- Jochen Horst jako Etius
- Laura Morante jako Aggrippina
- Massimo Dapporto jako Claudius
- Maurizio Donadoni jako Burros
- Pierre Vaneck jako Paul of Tarsus
- John Simm jako Caligula
- Matthias Habich jako Seneca
- Ángela Molina jako Domitia
- Hans Matheson jako Nero
- Ian Richardson jako Septimus
- Liz Smith jako Soothsayer