Movie
The Fight for Rome
1968 · 103 min
A stately, old-fashioned historical spectacle of scheming royals and clashing empires, grand in costume but talky and deliberate in pace.
- Directed by
- Andrew Marton, Robert Siodmak
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, History
- Starring
- Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina
- Overview
- A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.
- How it feels
- Earnest, tense and romantic. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Power, betrayal, ambition, love
- Content
- Mild violence and sexual content. No gore or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Andrew Marton, Robert Siodmak
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, History
- Starring
- Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina
