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Imperium: Nerone DVD 2004 Néró a véreskezű zsarnok / Directed by Paul Marcus / Starring: Hans Matheson, Laura Morante, John Simm, Rike Schmid
UPC 5999546332759
REGION 2 PAL DVD
MADE IN EU
AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 5.1
SUBTITLES: Hungarian
TOTAL RUNTIME: 95 minutes
English Summary:
Imperium: Nero is an Italian-British-Spanish television film, part of the Imperium series; it was made film available on DVD as of November 2005 in the U.S. and Canada. Produced by EOS Entertainment and Lux Vide for RAI and Telecinco.
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. 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 Brittania. 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 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.
Hungarian Summary:
Róma, nem sokkal Krisztus keresztre feszítése után: Nero-nak már gyermekkorában menekülnie kell Rómából, amikor a nagybátyja, Caligula az édesanyjával együtt száműzi őket. A fiú egy rabszolgacsaládban nő fel, ahol a családfő megszeretteti vele a művészetet és az irodalmat. A császár halála után azonban újból találkozhat rég nem látott édesanyjával, s bátran visszatérhet a birodalomba. Amikor Agrippina-t, az anyját az új császár, Claudius feleségül veszi, az asszonynak egyetlen dolog lebeg csak a szeme előtt: fia minél hamarabb a Római Birodalom élére kerüljön. Ennek érdekében pedig álnok tettre vetemedik: megmérgezi Claudius császárt. Ám az asszony nem nézi jó szemmel, hogy fia egy rabszolgalányba, Acte-be szerelmes, ezért megöleti a lányt. Nero a történtek hatására lassan eszét veszti és tanítómestere, Seneca után az egész Római Birodalom ellen fordul...
Cast / Szereplők:
- Hans Matheson - Nero
- Laura Morante - Agrippina
- Rike Schmid - Acte
- Simón Andreu - Porridus
- Sonia Aquino - Messalina
- Maria Gabriella Barbuti - Licia
- James Bentley - Young Nero
- Marco Bonini - Rufus
- Robert Brazil - Gaius Silius
- Philippe Caroit - Apollonius
- Todd Carter - Senator # 1
- Massimo Dapporto - Claudius
- Maurizio Donadoni - Burrus
- Emanuela Garuccio - Claudia
- Matthias Habich - Seneca
- Klaus Händl - Pallas
- Jochen Horst - Etius
- Ruby Kammer - Marzia
- Ángela Molina - Domitia
- Mario Opinato - Tigellinus
- Vittoria Puccini - Octavia
- Ian Richardson - Septimus
- Paolo Scalabrino - Senator # 2
- John Simm - Caligula
- Liz Smith - Soothsayer
- Elisa Tovati - Poppea
- Pierre Vaneck - Paul of Tarsus
- Francesco Venditti - Britannicus
Crew / Alkotók:
- Directed by: Paul Marcus
- Teleplay by: Paul Billing & Francesco Contaldo
- Produced by: Luca Bernabei
- Director of Photography: Giovanni Galasso
- Production Designer: Paolo Biagetti
- Edited by: Alessandro Lucidi
- Costume Designer: Paolo Scalabrino
- Music By: Marco Frisina
