Caligula - The Ultimate Cut ( Caligola )

Caligula - The Ultimate Cut (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Caligola
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
172 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Uncut

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Tinto Brass

Written By:
Gore Vidal

Actors:
Malcolm McDowell ..... Emperor Gaius Germanicus Caesar (Caligula)
Teresa Ann Savoy ..... Julia Drusilla
Helen Mirren ..... Caesonia
Peter O'Toole ..... Emperor Tiberius Caesar
John Steiner ..... Longinus
Guido Mannari ..... Macro
Paolo Bonacelli ..... Chaerea
Leopoldo Trieste ..... Charicles
Giancarlo Badessi ..... Claudius
Mirella D'Angelo ..... Livia (as Mirella Dangelo)
Anneka Di Lorenzo ..... Messalina
Lori Wagner ..... Agrippina
Adriana Asti ..... Ennia
John Gielgud ..... Nerva
Bruno Brive ..... Gemellus

Synopsis:

Caligula stars such respected thespians as Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole and Sir John Gielgud. All are fantastic but it is McDowell as the titular Emperor Caligula who delivers a tour de force performance. He perfectly encapsulates director Brass's vision of Caligula as an anarchist in power, a child given the most powerful Empire in the world to play with. He is both funny and psychotic, charming and frightening, childlike and sexually violent. Despite playing such a convincing maniac, McDowell manages to move the viewer with the more human aspects of Caligula's nature. When Caligula's sister Drusilla (Teresa Ann Savoy) - with whom he has an incestuous love affair - dies from a fever, his grief is actually touching. As Caligula's behaviour becomes more and more erratic, one cannot help feel for his desperate situation. He attempts to push his Senate into defying him, giving them increasingly crazy commands and becomes more and more frustrated when even whoring their wives and daughters does not force them into stopping him. That McDowell can make this character believable is astounding.

Caligula may very well be the most controversial film in history. Only one movie dares to show the perversion behind Imperial Rome, and that movie is Caligula, the epic story of Rome's mad emperor. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: his unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing of those who would oppose him and more. The combined talents of cinematic giants Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud and Shakespearean actress Helen Mirren, along with an acclaimed international cast and a bevy of beautiful Pent-house Pets, make this unique historical drama a masterwork of the screen. Not for the squeamish, not for the prudish, Caligula will shock and arouse you as it reveals the deviance and decadence beneath the surface of the grandeur that once was Rome.

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, organizes elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 20 August, 2024.