Caligola (1979)

Directors:

Tinto Brass
Bob Guccione

Drehbuchautor:

Gore Vidal (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

15. Februar 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Historienfilm | Porno

Werbezeile:

What would you have done if you had been given absolute power of life and death over everybody else in the whole world?

Plot:

Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.

Plot Keywords:

Leg Spreading | Box Office Flop | Cumshot | Evil | Male Prostitution

Nutzerkommentare:

It Stunk Then, It Stinks Now

Besetzung

Malcolm McDowell	...	Caligula
Teresa Ann Savoy	...	Drusilla
Guido Mannari	...	Macro
John Gielgud	...	Nerva
Peter O'Toole	...	Tiberius
Giancarlo Badessi	...	Claudius
Bruno Brive	...	Gemellus
Adriana Asti	...	Ennia
Leopoldo Trieste	...	Charicles
Paolo Bonacelli	...	Chaerea
John Steiner	...	Longinus
Mirella D'Angelo	...	Livia (as Mirella Dangelo)
Helen Mirren	...	Caesonia
Rick Parets	...	Mnester (as Richard Parets)
Paula Mitchell	...	Subura Singer

Alternativ:

Caligula (USA)
Caligula, My Son (UK)
Caligvla (International: English title) (alternative spelling)
Gore Vidal's Caligola (Italy) (working title)
Io, Caligola (Italy) (recut version)

Länge:

156 Min | USA:148 Min (re-release) | Italy:123 Min (recut version) | UK:102 Min | 210 Min (original cut) | Spain:137 Min | USA:102 Min (R-rated version)

Produktionsland:

Italy | USA

Sprache:

Italienisch | Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Eastmancolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (original release) | Dolby (re-release: 1999)

Altersfreigabe:

Italy:VM18 | Australia:X (1985) | Netherlands:16 | West Germany:18 (nf) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | USA:NC-17 (original rating) | UK:18 (re-rating: 1990) (heavily cut) | Germany:18 (SPIO/JK) (cut) | Finland:K-18 (heavily cut) (1981) | France:-16 | Belgium:KNT (original rating) | USA:Unrated (uncut) | Finland:(Banned) (original rating) | New Zealand:R18 | France:-18 (DVD version) | Belgium:16 (video rating) | Spain:X | Australia:Refused Classification (2005) | USA:R (heavily cut) | Argentina:18 | Canada:(Banned) (Nova Scotia) | Chile:18 | Denmark:15 (DVD rating) | Denmark:16 | Finland:K-18 | Hong Kong:III | Iceland:(Banned) (original rating) | Iceland:16 (cut) | Norway:18 | Peru:18 | South Korea:18 (cut) | Sweden:15 | USA:X (self applied MA for "Mature Audiences") | Australia:R (cut) | UK:X (original rating: 1980) (cut)

Drehorte:

Dear Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Firma:

Penthouse Films International

Dies und das:

Maria Schneider was originally supposed to play Drusilla and actually started shooting some scenes, but she changed her mind while filming a sex scene with Malcolm McDowell. Deeply disturbed by her skimpy toga and the graphic incest scenes, she walked off the set bad-mouthing the production.

Pannen:

Anachronismus: There is a huge map of Europe and the Mediterranean on the wall. It is a modern, extremely precise map, much more precise than available at the time.

Dialogzitate:

Macro: My wife lives only to the day she can see you again, Prince.

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Ausschnittsweise enthalten in Sans soleil (1983)

Soundtrack:

Adagio

It Stunk Then, It Stinks Now

Okay, I tried to be fair. I looked at the cast which includes some very talented actors, the writer who is supposed to be a intellectual giant of sorts.. I saw this film in the movies, and it stunk. I saw the r-rated VHS version and it stunk, and now, I dumbly rented the "unrated" DVD and it was, I believe very much longer, but stunk just as much. I thought perhaps over a quarter century, I would have grown to appreciate this film more. I do not. Please understand that I have nothing against sex on screen, or nudity on screen or just about anything else on screen, as long as it all comes together and makes a good film. This film is not a good film. It is a real, first class stinkeroo. If I had to pick one film to show to a class (an adult class) as an example of how to make a terrible film, this would be it. I wonder, did John Gielgud or Peter O'Toole ever publish any comments on this film? It would be interesting, I think, to hear their comments. If you have a chance to rent this film, rent the R-rated version, because I think (at least if memory serves me) that it is mercifully, shorter.

If you want to watch a low budget film along similar lines, that is not quite as bad as this one, (but still very bad indeed) you might try the less awful "Warrior Queen", which is also, mercifully, shorter. It has lots of nudity and death, but no Gielguds or O'Tooles to waste in its making. They claim that "Caligula" is historically accurate. Perhaps it's true to some extent, but if so, it's a story not worth watching.