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Henryk Sienkiewicz (novel)
Ennio De Concini (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
24 February 1985 (Italy) more
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Mesmerizing! more (5 total)
Cast
(Series Cast overview, first billed only) | Klaus Maria Brandauer | ... | Nero |
 | Frederic Forrest | ... | Petronius |
 | Cristina Raines | ... | Poppaea |
| Barbara De Rossi | ... | Eunice |
| Francesco Quinn | ... | Marcus Vinicius |
| Marie-Theres Relin | ... | Lygia (as Marie Therese Relin) |
| Gabriele Ferzetti | ... | Piso |
| Massimo Girotti | ... | Aulus Plautius |
| Philippe Leroy | ... | Paul of Tarsus |
| Leopoldo Trieste | ... | Chilo |
| Olga Karlatos | ... | Epicaris |
| Marko Nikolic | ... | Tigellinus |
| Françoise Fabian | ... | Pomponia |
| Georges Wilson | ... | Pedanius |
 | Max von Sydow | ... | The Apostle Peter |
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360 min | Finland:124 min (theatrical version)
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Italy | France | Spain | Switzerland | UK | West Germany
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1.33 : 1 more
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South Korea:12 (2006) | Finland:K-16
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Do NOT judge this production by the 2-hour version that was released on VHS in the US, which is a choppy and incomprehensible mess. I had the pleasure of watching the full-length 6-hour version available on DVD from the UK, and was spellbound. The deliberate pace and growing sense of menace are mesmerizing, as is the amazing visual and aural landscape; this is an ancient Rome we have never seen before, and far more authentic than most.
Director Franco Rossi was justly celebrated for his 1968 mini-series of The Odyssey, and this mini-series is equally powerful. Just as Bekim Fehmiu became the screen's best Ulysses, so Klaus Maria Brandauer may be the screen's best Nero. Now, I am hoping someday to see Rossi's version of The Aeneid (Eneide) that was broadcast on Italian TV in 1971.
I am undecided which version of QUO VADIS is more powerful, this one or the Polish mini-series from 2001; each has different virtues, and in many ways they complement one another. Certainly, either one towers over that Hollywood camp-riot starring Peter Ustinov.