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Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome. He divorces Acte, and forces the citizens to watch hour long recitals, and at one of these, accidentally kills his new pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina .
Nero and the Burning of Rome (Italian: Nerone e Messalina) is a 1953 Italian epic historical drama film directed by Primo Zeglio and loosely based on real life events of Roman emperor Nero. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was based on the novel Nerone e Messalina (c.1949) by Harry Bluhmen.
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Nero and the Burning of Rome: 1953 directed by Primo Zeglio: The Silver Chalice: 1954 starring Paul Newman (dir. by Victor Saville) Nero's Mistress: 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Steno: The Ten Gladiators: 1963 Italian film directed by Gianfranco Parolini. Challenge of the Gladiator: 1965 Italian film directed by Domenico Paolella. Fire ...
Motivated by a desire to destroy the city, Nero secretly sent out men pretending to be drunk to set fire to the city. Nero watched from his palace on the Palatine Hill, singing and playing the lyre. [25] Nero openly sent out men to set fire to the city. Nero watched from the Tower of Maecenas on the Esquiline Hill while singing. [26]
Fire Over Rome was released as L'incendio di Roma in Italy on 20 March 1965. [1] In the UK it received a belated release in 1975 under the title Revenge of the Gladiators where it appeared on a double bill with the 1962 film Land of the Monsters .
Nero is a 1922 American-Italian silent historical film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Jacques Grétillat, Sandro Salvini, and Guido Trento. [1] It portrays the life of the Roman Emperor Nero .
Scene from Quo Vadis. Marcus Vinicius is a Roman military commander and the legate of the XIV Gemina.Returning from wars in Britain and Gaul, he stays in the house of Aulus Plautius, a retired Roman general, and becomes smitten with Lygia, a Lygian hostage of Rome in the old general's care.