Caligula (film)
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Caligula is a 1979 film directed by Tinto Brass, with additional scenes filmed by Bob Guccione and Giancarlo Lui, about the Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Germanicus also known as "Caligula". Caligula was written by Gore Vidal and co-financed by Penthouse magazine, though the script underwent several re-writes after Tinto Brass and Malcolm McDowell found Gore Vidal's interpretation of the infamous Emperor to be unsatisfactory.
The unrated version, available in the U.S. and mainland Europe, running 156 minutes (NTSC) and 150 minutes (PAL), is the most widely seen cut of the film. It enjoyed a limited, albeit highly profitable, run in the American cinemas. This version contained significant explicit sexual and violent content, including sex orgies, masturbation, fellatio, cunnilingus, anal fisting, male and female homosexuality, cross-dressing and transvestism, sibling incest, rape, male and female urination as well as scenes of decapitation of prisoners using a lawn-mower-type device (which is unlikely to have actually existed), infanticide, implied fratricide, penile castration and testicle castration.
Principal Cast
- Malcolm McDowell - Caligula
- Teresa Ann Savoy - Drusilla
- Helen Mirren - Caesonia
- Peter O'Toole - Tiberius
- John Steiner - Longinus
- Guido Mannari - Macro
- Paolo Bonacelli - Cassius Chaerea
- Leopoldo Trieste - Charicles
- Giancarlo Badessi - Claudius
- Mirella D'Angelo - Julia Livilla
- Adriana Asti - Ennia
- Bruno Brive - Tiberius Gemellus
- John Gielgud - Nerva (son of Marcus Cocceius Nerva)
- Lori Wagner - Agrippina
- Anneka Di Lorenzo - Messalina
