Imperium: Augustus
Director: Roger Young
Genre: History, Television movie, War film, Romance Film, Action, Political drama, Biography, Drama
Year: 2003
Country: Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, Spain
Language: English Language
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Vittoria Belvedere, Charlotte Rampling, Juan Diego Botto, Ken Duken, Anna Valle, Martina Stella, Benjamin Sadler
Imperium: Augustus is a 2003 joint British-Italian production, and part of the Imperium series. It tells of the life story of Octavian and how he became Augustus. Half the film takes place in the past (as Augustus explains to his daughter Julia how he became who he was) and the other half takes place in the later life of Augustus.
The drama starred Peter O'Toole as Augustus, Charlotte Rampling as Livia, Vittoria Belvedere as Julia, Ken Duken as Marcus Agrippa, Benjamin Sadler as Octavian (young Augustus) and Juan Diego Botto as Iullus Antonius. It was filmed in Tunisia. The film was produced by EOS Entertainment and Lux Vide for RAI, Telecinco and ZDF.
Augustus is on his death bed. He looks back on his life to a conversation he had with his beloved daughter, Julia. After an attempt on Augustus' life, he is shocked to learn his closest friend and Julia's husband Marcus Agrippa is dead. Livia suggests that for the safety of Rome, her stepdaughter Julia should marry her son Tiberius. Her reluctance to marry Tiberius causes Augustus to sit down and tell her the story of how he became the emperor of Rome.
He recalls 46 BC Rome is in the middle of a civil war. Together with his friend
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