DVD
Cleopatra
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Special ed.
Languages
In English or dubbed French, with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned.
Performers
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowell, Robert Stephens, Francesca Annis, Herbert Berghof, Michael Hordern, Carroll O'Connor, Gwen Watford.
Publication Information
Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2005]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (248 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: G.
Summary
This sweeping epic tells the legendary story of the Queen of the Nile and her conquest of Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony.
Notes
Based upon the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius, Appian, other ancient sources and "The life and times of Cleopatra" by C.M. Franzero.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.
Special feature: audio commentary by Jack Brodsky, Martin Landau, Chris Mankiewicz and Tom Mankiewicz.
Subjects
- Queens > Egypt > Drama.
- Man-woman relationships > Egypt > Drama.
- Heads of state > Drama.
- Actium, Battle of, 31 B.C. > Drama.
- Egypt > History > 332-30 B.C. > Drama.
- Rome > History > Civil War, 43-31 B.C. > Drama.
- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C. > Drama.
- Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C. > Drama.
- Caesar, Julius > Drama.
- Caesar, Julius > Assassination > Drama.
- Plutarch > Film adaptations.
- Suetonius, ca. 69-ca. 122 > Film adaptations.
- Appianus, of Alexandria > Film adaptations.
- Franzero, Carlo Maria, b. 1892 > Film adaptations.