Bleda

Attila (2001)

Actors: Siân Phillips (actress), David S. Cass Sr. (actor), Dick Lowry (director), Powers Boothe (actor), Steven Berkoff (actor), Jane Robinson (costume designer), Alice Krige (actress), Sean Daniel (producer), Gerard Butler (actor), Graham Crowden (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), Tim Curry (actor), Tod Feuerman (editor), Jonathan Hyde (actor), Blake Busby (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: A romanced story of Attila the Hun, from when he lost his parents in childhood until his death. Attila is disclosed as a great leader, strategist and lover and the movie shows his respect to the great Roman strategist Flavius Aetius, his loves and passions, the gossips, intrigues and betrayals in Rome, all of these feelings evolved by magic and mysticism.

Keywords: 5th-century, adoptive-father-adopted-daughter-relationship, alliance, ambition, ancient-rome, archery, army, arrest, arrow, assassination-attempt
Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War,
Taglines: Men followed. Women worshiped. Rome trembled.

Quotes:

Galen: The beast with red fur.::N'Kara: The toadstool who talks.::Galen: Bleda mounts you more often than his horse.::N'Kara: That is no choice of mine.::Galen: Then why do you?::N'Kara: My mother and sister, if I kill myself then Bleda will kill them.::Galen: They live becasue of Attila... I have seen the way he looks at you, and the way you look at him.::N'Kara: It doesn't matter, I belong to Belda.::Galen: A Hun warrior does not possess a woman until she bears his child. If you bear Bleda's then Attila will have nothing to do with you.::Galen: [takes a a little bag]::Galen: Take one of these every morning, they will keep Bleda's seed from your womb. Attila or Bleda. Bleda or Attila, I know who Galen would choose.

Flavius Aetius: [about Attila] A few more like him, and Rome could conquer the world all over again.

Placidia: Actius, you told me that if Attila attacked the West it would be on your head. Do you begin to feel the WEIGHT?

Honoria: [about Attila] He's quite striking - in a primitive sort of way.::Girl: His clothes are made of animal skins.::Honoria: Don't worry, he'll be out of them soon enough.

Flavius Aetius: Civilized men are easy to conquer, but civilization still belongs to the civilized, not the barbarians.::Attila the Hun: It belongs to whoever is strong enough to take it.

Young Attila: Kneel.::Man: Kneel to a boy?::Young Attila: Submit to me and live.

Attila the Hun: Trickery and deceit. That is the way of the Romans, not of the Huns.::Flavius Aetius: Yes, but which way rules the world?

Attila the Hun: You Romans play with kings and nations as a child plays with toys.::Flavius Aetius: I go back to Rome soon. Come with me, and learn how the world is ruled. Find out if Rome really does play with nations as though they were toys. There is no-one like you in Rome, and no-one like me here. You and I can do great things together.::Attila the Hun: If we don't kill each other first.

Honoria: I say that if a woman can only have power through a man, then let it be with the most powerful man she can find.

Bleda: Rua died without issue. I am the elder son of his brother, and so am rightfully king.::Attila the Hun: To what purpose? To fight in the service of Rome or some other nation?::Bleda: We will live as Huns have always lived. What else should we do?::Attila the Hun: We should rule the world!

La tecnica e il rito (1972)

Actors: Luigi Montini (actor), Luigi Diberti (actor), Miklós Jancsó (director), Francesco De Masi (composer), Miklós Jancsó (writer), George Wang (actor), Marco Guglielmi (actor), József Madaras (actor), Maurizio Pastrovich (miscellaneous crew), Adalberto Maria Merli (actor), Brizio Montinaro (actor), Gyula Hernádi (writer), Emilio Bonucci (actor), Gino Marturano (miscellaneous crew), Giovanna Gagliardo (writer),

Genres: Drama, History,

Sign of the Pagan (1954)

Actors: Anthony Jochim (actor), George Lynn (actor), Charles Horvath (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Leo Gordon (actor), Frank Gifford (actor), Len Hendry (actor), Michael Ansara (actor), Jeff Chandler (actor), John Damler (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Eduard Franz (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Lee Morgan (actor), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (actor),

Plot: Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. But Marcian gains the favor of Pulcheria, lovely sister of Theodosius, who favors a united Empire. As Attila marches, things look bleak for the weakened imperial forces. But the conqueror has an awe of the power of the Christians' God...

Keywords: ancient-rome, epic
Genres: Drama, History,
Taglines: Against the ravaging hordes of ATTILA...stood a warrior's might and a people's faith! Against his ruthless pagan lusts...the power of a woman's love!