Apollodorus

The Death of Socrates (2010)

Actors: Wilson Stiner (writer), Wilson Stiner (producer), Wilson Stiner (director), Xander Berkeley (actor), Wilson Stiner (editor), Bill Flynn (actor), Natasa Prosenc Stearns (director), Natasa Prosenc Stearns (producer), Natasa Prosenc Stearns (writer), Tom Druilhet (actor), Junya Sakino (actor), Ray Abruzzo (actor), Zain Effendi (composer), Lawton Paseka (actor), Dario Varga (actor),

Plot: This is the story of the first martyr of free speech. Socrates is on trial for his life. He will be put to death and he knows it. 2500 years later we remember his words. The Death of Socrates was filmed in 10 countries by 23 filmmakers in 7 languages. One character - Socrates, changes from one scene to another from man to woman, young to old, human to animal, but delivering a monologue, broken into 23 chapters. Truth is not found in one person, in one place.

Keywords: athens-greece, free-speech, justice, philosophy, socrates
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: 23 filmmakers, 10 countries, 7 languages, 0 budget, 1 martyr of free speech Socrates was put to death, but 2500 years later we remember his words The unexamined life is not worth living

Caesar and Cleopatra (1976)

Actors: Geneviève Bujold (actress), George Bernard Shaw (writer), Neville Phillips (actor), Alec Guinness (actor), Michael Bryant (actor), Michael J. Lewis (composer), Iain Cuthbertson (actor), Noel Willman (actor), Clive Francis (actor), Gareth Thomas (actor), Margaret Courtenay (actress), James Cellan Jones (director), Roy Stewart (actor), Michael Poole (actor), Audrey Maas (writer),

Genres: Drama,

Caesar und Cleopatra (1970)

Actors: George Bernard Shaw (writer), Harald Halgardt (actor), Wolf Kaiser (actor), Horst Schön (actor), Joachim Tomaschewsky (actor), Harald Warmbrunn (actor), Angelica Domröse (actress), Wolfgang Pietsch (composer), Ursula Braun (actress), Karin Ugowski (actress), Wilfried Ortmann (actor), Michael Pan (actor), Werner Ehrlicher (actor), Winfried Wagner (actor), Thomas Weisgerber (actor),

Genres: ,

Cäsar und Cleopatra (1969)

Actors: Tilly Lauenstein (actress), Werner Finck (actor), O.E. Hasse (actor), Alexander Kerst (actor), Joachim Rake (actor), George Bernard Shaw (writer), Violetta Ferrari (actress), Heinrich Böll (writer), Ulrich Erfurth (director), Gerhard Soor (actor), Thomas Stroux (actor), Claus Hofer (actor), Annemarie Böll (writer), Günter Berger (actor), Giselher Schweitzer (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Caesar und Cleopatra (1964)

Actors: Hans-Dieter Schwarze (director), Claus Biederstaedt (actor), Hans Karl Friedrich (actor), Paul Verhoeven (actor), Jaspar von Oertzen (actor), Elisabeth Flickenschildt (actress), Monika John (actress), Hans-Dieter Schwarze (writer), George Bernard Shaw (writer), Lukas Ammann (actor), Christoph Bantzer (actor), Hanns Ernst Jäger (actor), Bernhard Sinkel (actor), Walter Wehner (actor), Uta Sax (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Cleopatra (1963)

Actors: John Hoyt (actor), John Karlsen (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), John Alderson (actor), Salvatore Billa (actor), Grégoire Aslan (actor), Rex Harrison (actor), Richard Burton (actor), Martin Benson (actor), George Cole (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Finlay Currie (actor), Salvatore Billa (actor), John Doucette (actor), Andrew Keir (actor),

Plot: Epic saga of the legendary Queen's reign from the time Julius Caesar arrived in Egypt until her death some 18 years later. Cleopatra is portrayed as a schemer, firstly to gain control over the Egyptian kingdom from her brother with whom she ruled jointly. Having gained the confidence of Caesar, they become lovers and she bears him the son he never had. Her attempts at ensuring that the boy takes his rightful place in Rome are thwarted when Caesar is assassinated and she flees back to Egypt. Many years later Marc Antony, now responsible for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, seeks an alliance with Egypt. He and Cleopatra become lovers and form a military alliance but are forced to retreat after losing a major naval encounter at Actium. Both eventually take their own lives.

Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., 70mm-film, alexandria-egypt, ancient-egypt, ancient-rome, antiquity, assassination, banquet, barge, based-on-book
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance,
Taglines: The motion picture the world has been waiting for!

Quotes:

[Seducing Caesar]::Cleopatra: My breasts are full of love and life. My hips are round and well apart. Such women, they say, have sons.

Cleopatra: You come before me as a suppliant.::Antony: If you choose to regard me as such.::Cleopatra: You will therefore assume the position of a suppliant before this throne. You will kneel.::Antony: I will *what*?::Cleopatra: On-your-knees!::Antony: You dare ask the Proconsul of the Roman Empire?::Cleopatra: I *asked* it of Julius Caesar. I *demand* it of you!

Antony: Queens. Queens. Strip them naked as any other woman, they are no longer queens.::Rufio: It is also difficult to tell the rank of a naked general. Generals without armies are naked indeed.

Cleopatra: The way to prevent war is to be ready for it!::Sosigenes: Have 300 warships ever been built for war without war?

Agrippa: Well versed in the natural sciences and mathematics. She speaks seven languages proficiently. Were she not a woman one would consider her to be an intellectual.

Marc Antony: Why are you not dead? Why do you live? How do you live? Why do you not lie at the deepest hole of the sea, bloodless, and bloated, and at peace with honorable death?

Marc Antony: Your tongue is old, but sharp, Cicero. Be careful how you wag it. One day it will cut off your head.

Marc Antony: [his last words] A kiss... to take my breath away...

Julius Caesar: Ah, yes. I seem to recall some mention of an obsession you have about your divinity... Isis, isn't it?::Cleopatra: I shall have to insist that you mind what you say. I AM Isis. I am worshipped by millions who believe it. You are not to confuse what I am with the so-called divine origin which every Roman general seems to acquire together with his shield. It was, uh, Venus you chose to be descended from, wasn't it?

Cleopatra: How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!

Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

Actors: Gibb McLaughlin (actor), H.F. Maltby (actor), Raymond Lovell (actor), Mihalis Kakogiannis (actor), Leo Genn (actor), John Laurie (actor), Anthony Holles (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Felix Aylmer (actor), Valentine Dyall (actor), Ivor Barnard (actor), Gerald Case (actor), Stewart Granger (actor), Cecil Parker (actor), Roger Moore (actor),

Plot: Cleopatra hasn't been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Caesar finds the prospect of romance more tempting than he expected, since Cleopatra is a rare woman who is bright as well as beautiful. And for Cleopatra, a friendly relationship with the most powerful man in the world may pay dividends in the future.

Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., ancient-rome, based-on-play, character-name-in-title, cleopatra, control, dictator, egypt, egyptian, femme-fatale
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance, War,
Taglines: The most lavish picture ever on the screen! Days of magnificent adventure... nights of maddest revelry... a temptation in Technicolor! Never before such seductive beauty; such riotous... luxurious... loving and living

Quotes:

Julius Caesar: Go, Ptolemy. Always take a throne when it is offered to you.

Julius Caesar: And so to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right, and justice, and peace, until the gods create a race of men that can understand.

Julius Caesar: What's the matter?::Cleopatra: You're bald! That's why you wear the wreath!

Julius Caesar: Is it sweet or bitter to be a queen?::Cleopatra: Bitter.::Julius Caesar: Cast out fear, and you will conquer Caeser.

Apollodorus: When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares it his duty.

Cleopatra (1934)

Actors: Shep Houghton (actor), Ferdinand Gottschalk (actor), Arthur Hohl (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Lionel Belmore (actor), Jerry Frank (actor), Neal Hart (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Edmund Burns (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), John Carradine (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Harry Beresford (actor), William Farnum (actor), Ian Keith (actor),

Plot: In 48 BC, Cleopatra, facing palace revolt in her kingdom of Egypt, welcomes the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Rome. When Caesar, whom she has led astray, is killed, she transfers her affections to Marc Antony and dazzles him on a barge full of DeMillean splendor. But the trick may not work a third time...

Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., abduction, acrobat, ancient-egypt, ancient-rome, anger, army, asp, assassination, barge
Genres: Biography, Drama,
Taglines: History's most seductive woman! The screen's mightiest spectacle! The love affair that shook the world! Set In A Spectacle of Thrilling Magnificence!

Quotes:

Cleopatra: Together we could conquer the world.::Julius Caesar: Nice of you to include me.

Octavia: [about Calpurnia not knowing that Caesar and Cleopatra are involved] The wife is always the last to know.

Cleopatra: It's not the Senate I'm worried about but their fat wives. Do you know anything about senators, Charmion?::Charmion: Well, we only got here yesterday, Majesty.

Cleopatra: Women should be but toys for the great. It becomes them both.

Cleopatra: So Rome would forgive and take you back? And all they demand is for us to part. Why don't they ask the sun to fall right out of the sky?

Cleopatra: I admire men who don't love women.