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The Fall of the Roman Empire

Never before a spectacle like the fall of the Roman empire

1964 · NR · 3h 8m

Directed by Anthony Mann

6.5

TMDB audience score
241 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • Sophia Loren
    Lucilla

  • Stephen Boyd
    Livius

  • Alec Guinness
    Marcus Aurelius

  • James Mason
    Timonides

  • Christopher Plummer
    Commodus

  • Anthony Quayle
    Verulus

  • John Ireland
    Ballomar

  • Omar Sharif
    Sohamus

  • Mel Ferrer
    Cleander

  • Eric Porter
    Julianus

  • Finlay Currie
    Senator

  • Andrew Keir
    Polybius

  • Douglas Wilmer
    Niger

  • George Murcell
    Victorinus

  • Norman Wooland
    Virgilianus

  • Michael Gwynn
    Cornelius

  • Virgílio Teixeira
    Marcellus

  • Peter Damon
    Claudius