In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
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Sophia Loren | Lucilla |
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Stephen Boyd | Livius |
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Alec Guinness | Marcus Aurelius |
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James Mason | Timonides |
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Christopher Plummer | Commodus |
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Anthony Quayle | Verulus |
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John Ireland | Ballomar |
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Omar Sharif | Sohamus |
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Mel Ferrer | Cleander |
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Eric Porter | Julianus |
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Finlay Currie | Senator |
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Andrew Keir | Polybius |
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Douglas Wilmer | Niger |
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George Murcell | Victorinus |
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Norman Wooland | Virgilianus |
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Michael Gwynn | Cornelius |
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Virgilio Teixeira | Marcellus |
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Peter Damon | Claudius |
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Rafael Luis Calvo | Lentulus |
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Lena von Martens | Helva |
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Roland Carey | Barbarian |
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Margaret Fuller | Part of Court |
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Mario Ghignone | Gladiators trainer |
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Gabriella Licudi | Tauna |
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Jeffrey O'Kelly | Brother of Livius |
| Director | Anthony Mann |
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| Writer | Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina, Philip Yordan, Edward Gibbon | |
| Producer | Samuel Bronston, Jaime Prades, Michal Waszynski | |
| Musician | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
| Photography | Robert Krasker | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed) Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Mono [English] |
| Subtitles | Danish | Finnish | Norwegian | Swedish |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Regions | Region 2 |
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