Quo Vadis?

• Director: Franco Rossi
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Sword-and-Sandal, Costume Adventure
• Themes: Rise To Power, Heroic Mission, Star-Crossed Lovers
• Release Year: 1985
• Country: IT
• Run Time: 122 minutes

Plot

This umpteenth film version of Henryk Sienkewicz's warhorse novel Quo Vadis? was produced for Italian Television. Francesco Quinn (son of Anthony) stars as the arrogant Roman legionnaire whose brutish, libertine outlook on life is softened by the love of early Christian girl Cristina Raines. Even allowing for the overproduced 1951 MGM version, this Quo Vadis? is a 200-minute wallow in excess. Accordingly, Klaus Maria Brandauer overplays Nero in an unbridled manner that hasn't been seen since the heyday of Bela Lugosi; at times, we shudder in fear that Brandauer's histrionics may level the papier-mache sets. Quo Vadis? debuted in the US on cable TV in 1986, where it was telecast in two parts. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Barbara de Rossi; Gabriele Ferzetti; Frederic Forrest; Massimo Girotti; Philippe Leroy; Francesco Quinn; Cristina Raines; Marie-Therese Relin; Max von Sydow; Leopoldo Trieste; Klaus Maria Brandauer

Credit

Franco Rossi - Director, Henryk Sienkiewicz - Book Author

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Ben-Hur; Demetrius and the Gladiators; Fabiola; The Fall of the Roman Empire; The Robe; Spartacus; I, Claudius; Gladiator