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The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 American epic historical drama film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston, with a screenplay by Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina and Philip Yordan. The film stars Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Mel Ferrer, and Omar Sharif.
Plot
In the winter of 180 AD, the ailing Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius fights to keep Germanic tribes from invading his northern territories on the Danube frontier. His deputies are the Greek ex-slave Timonides and the stern and honest general Gaius Livius. Privately Aurelius holds egalitarian ideals, and wants a successor who will reform the empire and grant equal rights to all its subjects; this disqualifies his son Commodus, who prefers to rule by force. Instead, Aurelius decides to nominate Livius, Commodus' closest friend and the lover of the emperor's daughter Lucilla.
Cast
- Alec Guinness
- Andrew Keir
- Anthony Quayle
- Christopher Plummer
- Douglas Wilmer
- Eric Porter
- Finlay Currie
- Friedrich von Ledebur
- Gabriella Licudi
- George Murcell
- Guy Rolfe
- James Mason
- John Ireland
- Lena Ressler
- Mel Ferrer
- Michael Gwynn
- Norman Wooland
- Omar Sharif
- Rafael Luis Calvo
- Robert Riettii
- Sophia Loren
- Stephen Boyd
- Virgilio Teixeira
More details
| author | Basilio Franchina Ben Barzman Philip Yordan |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | ancient Rome |
| director | Anthony Mann |
| editor | Robert Lawrence |
| genre | drama historical western |
| keywords | armenia ballomar burned alive commodus cry danube declares commodus a god deification epilogue eventual collapse fall of the western roman empire fight germanic peoples germanic tribes greek help human sacrifice illegitimate son javelin lucilla marcomannic wars marcus aurelius murder plot old friend ordeal parthian empire pilum plebeian poison political marriage province roman armenia roman empire roman forum roman provinces roman senate trial by ordeal |
| musicBy | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Original Score |
| producer | Samuel Bronston |
| productionCompany | Samuel Bronston Productions |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Madrid Spain |
| theme | biographical epic persian |