Julius Caesar (2002)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Julius Caesar |
| Original title | Julius Caesar |
| Country of production | United States , Italy , Germany , Netherlands |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 170 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Uli Edel |
| script |
Peter Pruce Craig Warner |
| production | Jonas Bauer |
| music |
Carlo Siliotto Ruy Folguera |
| camera | Fabio Cianchetti |
| cut | Mark Conte |
| occupation | |
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Julius Caesar is a two-part television film released in 2002 . He reports on the life of the Roman politician and general Julius Caesar from 82 BC. Until his death in 44 BC. Chr.
action
In 82 BC The young Julius Caesar is arrested in Rome by Sulla, the dictator. At the request of his mother Aurelia, he is released from prison, but has to flee because of renewed persecution. Pompey, Sulla's son-in-law and follower, helps him escape. On the way to Nicomedes IV in Bithynia, Caesar is captured by pirates near Crete , but can be freed again with a large ransom.
Meanwhile, Sulla dies in Rome, whereupon Caesar is allowed to return. He brings the slave Apollonius with him from Bithynia to teach his daughter Julia. With the help of Pompey, Caesar begins to win friends and patrons in order to secure popularity among the people and power among the patricians . Caesar's wife Cornelia, who was seriously ill while he was away, dies. He gives a public eulogy in which he promises the people to stand up for a better Rome.
When pirates block Rome's grain supply, Caesar convinces the Senate to entrust the incumbent consul Pompey with solving the problem. He is in return for the help that he himself once received from Pompey.
A few years later, Pompey returns victorious. He had succeeded in both defeating the pirates and crushing insurgent slaves, including Apollonios. Caesar is now consul himself. Iulia and her friends Portia and Marcus, both children of Cato, as well as Brutus have grown up. At the triumph , Caesar has an epileptic fit . Calpurnia, the daughter of the Roman senator Piso, and his mother come to his aid. At the festivities, Calpurnia and Caesar, who does not remember the previous meeting, get to know each other; Pompey and Juliet also come closer to one another.
Caesar and Pompeius enter into an alliance with each other, which brings Caesar in command of Gaul and a large army, and Pompeius marries Caesar's daughter Julia. Caesar and Calpurnia also marry.
In large campaigns Caesar gradually conquered Gaul . He meets Vercingetorix, who fights so bravely that Caesar gives him freedom. He then gathered a large Gallic army around him and stood against Caesar's army. Caesar therefore begins to build a double siege ring around Alesia , which includes the Gauls around Vercingetorix, and additionally keeps the advancing Gaulish reinforcements outside. After a long siege, Vercingetorix sent all women and children out of the city because of a shortage of food, so that Caesar would take care of them. However, he does not have mercy on them, as the food supplies of the Romans were already running out, so that those asking for help starve to death before the eyes of the Romans and Gauls.
Soon afterwards the second Gaulish army approaches from outside and a battle ensues in which the Gauls try to connect the two armies and the Romans try to prevent this. The Romans emerge victorious from the battle, Vercingetorix surrenders to Caesar and achieves freedom for his people. Caesar receives a message from Calpurnia that Juliet has died in childbed . He also learns that Pompey, who has now joined forces with Cato, plans to attack Caesar before he even arrives in Rome. He then crossed the Rubicon with his army and entered Rome, which had since been abandoned by his opponents. The people cheered his return and he was named “ dictator ” and “consul for life”.
Caesar follows Pompey to Greece, where he only meets parts of his army, which he immediately pardons. In the meantime, Pompey fled to Alexandria , where he was murdered on arrival. Caesar only learns of the death upon his own arrival. He stays in town, however, where he begins an affair with 18-year-old Cleopatra. Meanwhile, murder plans against Caesar are already being forged in Rome.
In 46 BC BC Caesar's army reaches Cato's fortress Utica . When he learns of Caesar's arrival, he commits suicide. On his return to Rome, Caesar brings Cleopatra, who has since become Queen of Egypt , and their son with him. Thereupon Caesar's opponents, now also Brutus, are convinced that he wants to be crowned king and that his son should be his successor. On the Ides of March 44 BC Caesar is murdered by dagger stabs of numerous senators.
production
US $ 3.5 million was spent on the detailed replica of the Roman Forum , with a total production cost of US $ 20 million, making the film one of the most expensive television productions ever. The film was shot in Bulgaria and Malta . For Richard Harris it was his last role, he died shortly after the film was finished. The credits therefore read “In Memory of Richard Harris”.
Film and historical facts
A large amount of historical facts have fallen victim to the script's dramaturgy or have been reversed, so that the film provides poor testimony to the true events:
- The Roman state is presented in a very simplified way at the expense of dramatization. Caesar's rise is also only perceptible to a very limited extent.
- The alliance, commonly referred to as the " First Triumvirate ", which Caesar entered into with Pompey and Crassus , and which was of decisive importance for Caesar's abundance of power, is not mentioned.
- Sulla did not die of a hemorrhage during his tenure in Rome, but only after his abdication at his retirement home near Puteoli in 78 BC. At the initiative of the consul Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Pompey, the Senate decided on the first state funeral of the late Roman Republic.
- Contrary to the portrayal of the film, Pompey and Caesar were never consuls at the same time .
- Caesar's stay in Iberia and the skills he acquired as a military commander are completely ignored.
- Cato is also portrayed as a senator and a mature man in the first scenes of the film, but he was born after Caesar and would therefore be in the Sulla scenes from 82 BC. BC correctly portrayed as a child, by no means as a senator.
- Contrary to tradition, Cleopatra simply enters the palace of Alexandria in the film, disguised as a slave, while Ptolemy had sealed off the palace to prevent his sister from entering, and she had to be smuggled into a sack tied up.
- Neither Caesar's adopted son Octavian , Marcus Licinius Crassus nor Cicero appear (or the latter only very briefly), but they were key figures in Caesar's political life.
- In addition, it is completely ignored that Sulla is not the first to establish a dictatorship at the beginning of the film, but returns from a campaign and re-establishes his rule. Before that, the Popularen had also built up a reign of terror in which political opponents were arrested and killed en masse.
Reviews
- "Uli Edel brings partly dry history into a truly exciting and impressive environment." (Patrick Fiekers - DigitalVD.de)
- "High-caliber, detailed monumental film adaptation, which presents the life of one of the most dazzling personalities of antiquity and, in addition to the political-military development, always keeps the personal tragedies of the protagonists in view." (Lexicon of international film)
German dubbed version
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Gaius Iulius Caesar | Jeremy Sisto | Sebastian Christoph Jacob |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix | Richard Harris | Werner Ehrlicher |
| Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger | Christopher Walken | Michael Christian |
| Calpurnia | Valeria Golino | Christin Marquitan |
| Gnaeus Pompey Magnus | Christopher Noth | Tom Vogt |
| Vercingetorix | Heino Ferch | Heino Ferch |
| Gaius Cassius Longinus | Tobias Moretti | Tobias Moretti |
| Mark Antony | Jay Rodan | Oliver Field |
| Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | Christian Kohlund | Christian Kohlund |
| Apollonius | Christopher Ettridge | Joachim Kerzel |
Awards
Emmy Awards 2004: nominations for “Best Mask” and “Best Sound Editing”.
Eddie Awards 2004: Award “Best Editing of a Mini-Series or Short Film”.
Web links
- Julius Caesar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Julius Caesar in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] , accessed on March 18, 2009.
- ↑ [2] , accessed on March 18, 2009.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 17, 2009.
- ↑ Julius Caesar. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
