Theodoric the great biography movie

"The Last Roman" redirects here.

Kampf um rom full movie

For the historical term, see Last of the Romans.

1968 West Germany, Italy film

Kampf um Rom (English language title: The Last Roman) is a West German-Italian historical drama film starring Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina and Honor Blackman. It was produced by Artur Brauner and was the last film to be directed by Robert Siodmak.^[1] It was originally released in two parts (Kampf um Rom 1.

Teil and Kampf um Rom 2. Teil: Der Verrat) in 1968 and 1969 as a late installment of the sword-and-sandal genre. Kampf um Rom shows the 6th-century power struggle between Byzantine emperor Justinian, the descendants of the Western Roman Empire and the Ostrogoths.

Theodoric meaning

The film is based on a novel by Felix Dahn.

Plot

In the 6th century AD, the Roman Empire has been shattered by Germanic invasions. Italy is ruled as an independent kingdom by the Ostrogoths, while the surviving, eastern remnant of Roman civilization