The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Never before a spectacle like the fall of the Roman empire

1964188 min6.5 / 10

An ambitious historical epic examining the moral and political collapse of empire through the lens of succession and duty, rendered with grand spectacle and philosophical weight.

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.

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