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In the film Nero is shown to have a fixation on playing the harp, which is only partly true. In a late part of the movie Nero is shown playing his harp in the center of a Roman Theatre as Emperor around 62 A.D. This is fiction, because Nero never played his harp in front of a large audience. He usually played it in isolation or within a small ...
Quo Vadis (Latin for "Where are you going?") is a 1951 American religious epic film set in ancient Rome during the final years of Emperor Nero's reign, based on the 1896 novel of the same title by Polish Nobel Laureate author Henryk Sienkiewicz.
This Wikipedia category page lists films featuring depictions of the Roman Emperor Nero.
British production, starring Tommy Trinder, Sonnie Hale and Francis L. Sullivan as the Emperor Nero. Quo Vadis: 1951 American production with Peter Ustinov as Nero (dir. by Mervyn LeRoy) 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
The film was a success both in Italy and on foreign markets. Nearly 300 copies were sold abroad at the time of the original release. [2]The scene where Nero is beset by bad conscience, having a vision of the Christians he had sent to martyrdom (shown by a red-toned double exposure shot), had a strong impact on the audience.
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. [4]
Ruins of a private theater belonging to the 1st century Roman Emperor Nero have been unearthed in the Italian capital just meters from the Vatican, in what experts are calling an “exceptional ...
Fellini Satyricon, or simply Satyricon, is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Federico Fellini and loosely based on Petronius's work Satyricon, written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in Imperial Rome.