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Synopsis: The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of Britain before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).

Genre: Drama, History

Director(s): Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione, Giancarlo Lui

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Guido Mannari, John Gielgud

Production: Analysis Releasing

2 nominations.


IMDB:: 5.3
Rotten Tomatoes:: 23%

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Year:: 1979
: 156 min
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Gemellus, lovely boy.
And too young to betray me.
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Perhaps not too young.
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Yes. Kiss your old grandfather.
Yes. My last grandson.
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I am your grandson, too, Caesar.
-By adoption.
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This is the last flesh of my flesh.
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Poor boy. What'd
it become of you?
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He's like a brother to me, Lord.
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Brother?
Another brother is enough envy.
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Brother kills a brother...
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who's killed his father
who's killed his son.
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Faith.
Drink, Caligula.
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After you, dear brother.
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Poor boy.
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When I am gone,
Caligula will kill you.
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And then,
someone will kill Caligula.
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Unless... unless he is dead,
before I am.
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You are looking not well at all.
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I, Caligula Caesar,
command on name...
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of the Senate and people of Rome.
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A brother kills a brother...
who's killed his father...
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...who's killed his son.
Faith.
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And then
someone's killed Caligula...
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He's going to kill me.
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Sssh. You're safe. You're with me.
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He's going to kill us.
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Because that we killed our father,
our mother and our brothers.
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I am not going to die.
-You won't.
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You're his heir.
There is no one else.
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Yeah, it is. There's Gemellus
an Claudius.
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Gemellus is too young,
Claudius is an idiot...
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...and Tiberius is old.
You will be emperor. Soon.
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And you will be my queen.
-You can't marry your sister.
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You can in Egypt.
-But we're in Rome...
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...and you're already promised.
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I know... To Ennia...
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It's only a bird.
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Prince?
-Hmm? What is it?
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My wife.
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Ennia.
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Now you are a man, Caligula.
What are you going to do?
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You must be the master
of your own destiny.
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Take it... with both hands.
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Preteens.
Why did you permit him to do it?
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Bind his wrists.
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Bind his wrists.
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You must not go, you
must not leave me.
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You're my friend, my only friend.
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I've lived too long, Tiberius,
I hate my life.
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Leave us.
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Both of you.
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The man to choose the
hour of his own death...
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is the closest he will ever
come to tricking faith.
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And faith decreased
that when you die,
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Macro will kill me.
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I'll arrest him and
have him executed.
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You can't. He controls you.
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Anyway, even if Macro dead,
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how could I go on living
with this reptile?
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You will respect my friend always,
won't you, reptile?
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I've always respected him, Lord.
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You hear?
-Tiberius, you were wise once.
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Ah, don't taunt me. I'm old.
-I watched you go into a monster.
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One by one, I've seen
you murder your family,
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your friends, the
noblest men in Rome.
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That is treason?
-No, it's the truth.
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I and my oath had been
surrounded by enemies.
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My own family and the Senate...
You're cruel.
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You're cruel.
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No, honest old men
can sometimes see the future.
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So, from evils pass
and evils yet to come...
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...I now choose to escape.
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So these are your
precautions, Nerva?
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Nerva, what's it like?
-Warm, no pain, just drifting away.
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Do you see her?
-Who?
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The Goddess.
Isis.
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Oh, you're one of
those who believe...
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Do you see her?
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No.
-Are you sure?
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You're almost dead. What's it like?
What's happening to you now?
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Nothing.
-You're lying.
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You can see her.
I know you can. What is she like?
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No... nothing at all...
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...just... sleep...
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Liar.
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Since Nerva died, Tiberius has
been brought paralyzed.
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They say he's close to death.
-Tiberius dies, be worse for us.
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Yeah, you love the bastard.
-Take that back.
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Prince. The physician Charicles.
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How is the Emperor?
How long will he last?
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Well, it could happen any moment,
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but with care he might
last a year or so.
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I can smell death...
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...but whose?
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Don't worry. He can do
nothing without me.
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So these poor
unfortunate creatures...
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thought...
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...and where are they?
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