The Fall of the Roman Empire

Never before a spectacle like the fall of the Roman empire

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.

Drama History War

Sophia Loren

(Lucilla)

Stephen Boyd

(Livius)

Alec Guinness

(Marcus Aurelius)

James Mason

(Timonides)

Christopher Plummer

(Commodus)

Anthony Quayle

(Verulus)

John Ireland

(Ballomar)

Omar Sharif

(Sohamus)

Mel Ferrer

(Cleander)

Eric Porter

(Julianus)

Finlay Currie

(Senator)

Andrew Keir

(Polybius)

Douglas Wilmer

(Niger)

George Murcell

(Victorinus)

Norman Wooland

(Virgilianus)

Michael Gwynn

(Cornelius)

Virgílio Teixeira

(Marcellus)

Peter Damon

(Claudius)

Rafael Luis Calvo

(Lentulus)

Lena von Martens

(Helva)

Roland Carey

(Barbarian (uncredited))

Margaret Fuller

(Part of Court (uncredited))

Mario Ghignone

(Gladiators Trainer (uncredited))

Gabriella Licudi

(Tauna (uncredited))

Jeffrey O'Kelly

(Brother of Livius (uncredited))

Robert Rietti

(Opening Narrator (voice / uncredited))

Guy Rolfe

(Marius (uncredited))

José Terrón

(Soldier on Horse (uncredited))

Friedrich von Ledebur

(Barbarian (uncredited))

Patricia Wright

(Roman Citizen, Slave Woman (uncredited))