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Quo Vadis DVD 1951 / Directed by Mervyn LeRoy / Starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov / American epic historical drama film

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Quo Vadis DVD 1951 / Directed by Mervyn LeRoy / Starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov / American epic historical drama film

UPC 7321925009620

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

MADE IN GERMANY

AUDIO: English mono, German mono, Spanish mono, Polish mono, Hungarian mono

SUBTITLES: Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, English HOH, German HOH 

Total Runtime: 167 minutes

 

English Summary:

Quo Vadis (Latin for "Where are you going?") is a 1951 American epic historical drama film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in Technicolor. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S.N. Behrman, and Sonya Levien, adapted from the novel Quo Vadis (1896) by the Polish Nobel Laureate author Henryk Sienkiewicz. The score is by Miklós Rózsa and the cinematography by Robert Surtees and William V. Skall. The title refers to an incident in the apocryphal Acts of Peter.

Marcus Vinicius is a Roman military commander and the legate of the XIV Gemina. Returning from wars in Britain and Gaul, he falls in love with Lygia, a devout Christian; in spite of this, he continually tries to win her affections. Though she grew up as the foster daughter of Aulus Plautius, a retired Roman general, Lygia is legally a Lygian hostage of Rome in the old general's care. Petronius, Marcus' uncle, persuades Nero to give her to his nephew as a reward for his services. Lygia resents this arrangement, but eventually falls in love with Marcus.

Meanwhile, Nero's atrocities become increasingly outrageous and his behavior more irrational. After Nero burns Rome and blames the Christians, Marcus sets out to rescue Lygia and her family. Nero arrests them, along with all the other Christians, and condemns them to be slaughtered in his Circus; some are killed by lions. Petronius, Nero's most trusted advisor, warns him that the Christians will be celebrated as martyrs, but he cannot change the emperor's mind. Then, tired of Nero's insanity and suspecting that he may be about to turn on him, too, Petronius composes a letter to Nero expressing his derision for the emperor (which he previously had concealed to avoid being murdered by him) and commits suicide by severing an artery in his wrist. His slavegirl Eunice (who has fallen in love with him) elects to die with him, despite being freed. The Christian apostle Peter has also been arrested after returning to Rome in response to a sign from the Lord, and he marries Marcus and Lygia in the Circus prisons. Peter is later crucified upside-down, a form of execution conceived by Nero's Praetorian Guard as an expression of mockery.

 

German Summary:

Im Jahr 64 nach Christus kehrt der römische Kommandeur Marcus Vinicius mit seinen Truppen siegreich von Britannien nach Rom zurück. Vor den Toren der Stadt erreicht ihn der Befehl Kaiser Neros, sein Lager aufzuschlagen und zu warten. Marcus sieht das nicht ein, zumal seine Leute von den Strapazen erschöpft sind und nach Hause wollen. Er fährt allein mit seinem Wagen zum Kaiser. Er trifft ihn in einer Runde, in der Nero gerade ein von ihm selbst verfasstes Lied zum Besten gibt und Petronius, den „arbiter elegantiae“, den Fachmann in Geschmacksfragen, um sein Urteil bittet. Petronius nimmt im Hofstaat des Imperators eine Sonderstellung ein, er ist der Einzige, welcher „offen“ Kritik am Kaiser üben darf, ohne gleich mit Konsequenzen durch den Imperator und dessen Schergen rechnen zu müssen. Vom Kaiser erfährt Marcus nun den Grund der Verzögerung: dem Volk sollen „panem et circenses“, Brot und Spiele, geboten werden – dazu wäre ein späterer Einmarsch der Truppen genau das Richtige. Nero bittet Marcus um Verständnis, noch auf die Legionen aus Asien und Afrika zu warten, was nur eine Sache von Stunden sein könne, um dann gemeinsam, thriumphal in Rom einzumarschieren. Erst jetzt kann Petronius – er ist Marcus’ Onkel – seinen Neffen richtig begrüßen und ihn zum Übernachten in das Haus des Generals Plautius schicken. Dort begegnet er der lygischen Geisel Lygia, die von Plautius und seiner Frau als Tochter erzogen wurde. Er verliebt sich in Lygia und versucht, sie von Nero als Anerkennung für seine Siege geschenkt zu bekommen. Im Haus des Generals lernt er auch einen gewissen Paulus aus Tarsus kennen. Was Marcus noch nicht weiß, ist, dass Plautius, seine Familie und auch Lygia Anhänger der christlichen Religion sind.

 

Cast / Besetzung:

Notable uncredited cast

 

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Screenplay by S. N. Behrman
Sonya Levien
John Lee Mahin
Based on Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Produced by Sam Zimbalist
Starring Robert Taylor
Deborah Kerr
Leo Genn
Peter Ustinov
Narrated by Walter Pidgeon
Cinematography Robert Surtees
William V. Skall
Edited by Ralph E. Winters
Music by Miklós Rózsa
Production
company
Distributed by Loew's, Inc.
Release date
  • November 8, 1951
Running time
167 minutes
Country United States
Language English

 

 

 

 

 

 

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