1 00:00:56,289 --> 00:00:58,849 A lion holding a sword! 2 00:00:58,925 --> 00:01:01,086 It's perfect for Pompeius! 3 00:01:01,861 --> 00:01:04,159 "Amicus est alter ego". 4 00:01:05,065 --> 00:01:06,430 Pompeius. 5 00:01:06,900 --> 00:01:09,596 Pompeius was my alter ego. 6 00:01:09,669 --> 00:01:13,628 One in a thousand, tenacious, wise, noble Pompeius. 7 00:01:13,706 --> 00:01:17,301 A great man, a great Roman! 8 00:01:17,911 --> 00:01:22,678 Decapitated and the skeleton scattered. 9 00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:23,681 No! 10 00:01:24,184 --> 00:01:25,116 Dogs! 11 00:01:25,552 --> 00:01:29,010 They will pay for this dishonor! 12 00:01:29,823 --> 00:01:31,882 All those murderers! 13 00:01:31,958 --> 00:01:35,086 All those who murdered Pompeius! 14 00:01:35,161 --> 00:01:39,791 All those who touched his robe shall be taken and executed! 15 00:01:41,601 --> 00:01:43,728 I shall be firm... 16 00:01:43,803 --> 00:01:45,532 reasonable... 17 00:01:45,939 --> 00:01:47,406 yet severe! 18 00:01:51,411 --> 00:01:54,107 Our Republic is about to fall. 19 00:01:54,180 --> 00:01:56,705 It has lost its meaning! 20 00:01:56,783 --> 00:01:59,149 Rome is a beggar! 21 00:01:59,385 --> 00:02:01,580 A Republic of beggars! 22 00:02:01,654 --> 00:02:04,748 We wish and we have to create a strength in one single body... 23 00:02:04,824 --> 00:02:06,792 otherwise, we shall be overcame! 24 00:02:06,860 --> 00:02:09,385 An Empire without an Emperor? 25 00:02:09,462 --> 00:02:12,920 Shall we tolerate our weakness, our shame... 26 00:02:12,999 --> 00:02:14,864 and the abject misery? 27 00:02:15,535 --> 00:02:19,938 In order for us to feed, train and pay the armies... 28 00:02:20,006 --> 00:02:22,566 we must turn them into Romans. 29 00:02:22,642 --> 00:02:26,510 Today we need more than Rome can provide, Caesar. 30 00:02:26,579 --> 00:02:30,538 That's why we want more than granaries of the fertile lands of Nile. 31 00:02:30,617 --> 00:02:35,782 The criminal, even incestuous Ptolemaic dynasty... 32 00:02:35,855 --> 00:02:40,349 the great home of the opulent and rich kingdom of Egypt... 33 00:02:40,426 --> 00:02:44,658 is a storehouse to the bigger, last great treasure... 34 00:02:44,731 --> 00:02:46,722 of the Eastern kings! 35 00:02:46,799 --> 00:02:49,529 It's a fabulous ark! 36 00:02:50,370 --> 00:02:52,235 Fabulous ark? 37 00:02:52,906 --> 00:02:54,806 Apparently so. 38 00:02:54,874 --> 00:02:58,310 A treasure kept for centuries! 39 00:02:58,378 --> 00:03:01,245 An incestuous dynasty it's true. 40 00:03:01,314 --> 00:03:05,580 Polyglot, treacherous and cruel. 41 00:03:06,419 --> 00:03:10,082 Today two brothers are locked in battle, intent on murder... 42 00:03:10,156 --> 00:03:13,853 neither of whom is Prometheus or Epimetheus. 43 00:03:17,497 --> 00:03:20,955 Cleopatra and the young Ptolemy are brother and sister... 44 00:03:21,034 --> 00:03:23,935 whose parents, grandparents... 45 00:03:24,003 --> 00:03:26,471 and great grandparents... 46 00:03:26,539 --> 00:03:29,372 were also brothers and sisters. 47 00:03:29,442 --> 00:03:31,808 All Ancient Egypt... 48 00:03:31,878 --> 00:03:34,972 was manipulated by Greek culture. 49 00:03:35,048 --> 00:03:38,779 The Greek line has remained unaltered. 50 00:03:38,851 --> 00:03:41,115 Cleopatra is 16 years old... 51 00:03:41,187 --> 00:03:43,815 intelligent, even a genius. 52 00:03:43,890 --> 00:03:46,381 She speaks many languages. 53 00:03:46,459 --> 00:03:48,393 She was born on Greek cradle... 54 00:03:48,461 --> 00:03:52,557 and was raised with care in the museum of Alexandria's Library... 55 00:03:52,632 --> 00:03:54,930 which she calls home. 56 00:03:55,001 --> 00:03:58,266 Her composure is most becoming... 57 00:03:58,338 --> 00:04:00,966 Our most recent and smallest conquests... 58 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,170 has done more harm to our soldiers than to our enemies. 59 00:04:05,945 --> 00:04:10,041 What can be gained from poverty-stricken people? 60 00:04:10,116 --> 00:04:11,640 Lmpose taxes... 61 00:04:11,751 --> 00:04:15,847 and ransoms from conquered kings, prisoners, beggars? 62 00:04:15,922 --> 00:04:17,514 It's all bad. 63 00:04:18,091 --> 00:04:19,752 It all smells foul! 64 00:04:19,826 --> 00:04:22,386 We must flee from the trivial. 65 00:04:22,962 --> 00:04:26,420 Provinces in ruins, dying cities... 66 00:04:26,499 --> 00:04:29,662 starving masses, plagues and revolts... 67 00:04:29,736 --> 00:04:34,196 tumble-down temples, laws without enforcement. 68 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:39,837 The world is crumbling like a shipwreck battered by the waves. 69 00:04:40,246 --> 00:04:41,338 Enough! 70 00:04:43,216 --> 00:04:46,151 You have understood very well... 71 00:04:46,219 --> 00:04:48,847 the last Orient treasure. 72 00:04:48,921 --> 00:04:53,358 Rome will be reborn! The wealth Caesar's Rome! 73 00:04:53,426 --> 00:04:56,759 I do not refuse all the wealth Egypt has to offer. 74 00:04:56,829 --> 00:04:57,921 Remember, Caesar... 75 00:04:57,997 --> 00:05:01,455 that Cleopatra's treasure is guarded in resin-sealed cedar coffers... 76 00:05:01,534 --> 00:05:04,162 so as to be easily burnt in the event of an emergency. 77 00:05:04,237 --> 00:05:07,536 Venus will triumph over Isis, Caesar! 78 00:05:57,256 --> 00:06:00,714 We are committed to the Ptolemaic dynasty... 79 00:06:00,827 --> 00:06:03,990 a dynasty established by Alexander. 80 00:06:04,063 --> 00:06:06,463 Brother and sister in battle? 81 00:06:06,532 --> 00:06:09,330 So, they shall be married. 82 00:06:09,402 --> 00:06:13,133 Then, we shall see the outcome. 83 00:06:13,740 --> 00:06:17,107 Isis is canny, although young. 84 00:06:55,281 --> 00:07:00,014 I think we should be most careful with these eunuchs... 85 00:07:00,086 --> 00:07:03,112 counselors and magicians... 86 00:07:03,723 --> 00:07:06,783 for they are constantly in the company of Isis... 87 00:07:06,859 --> 00:07:09,726 as if they were her crocodiles. 88 00:08:29,609 --> 00:08:31,509 We have the sea. 89 00:08:31,577 --> 00:08:33,875 We have the rock. 90 00:08:33,946 --> 00:08:37,541 And with our great library we have everything! 91 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,546 The great celestial plan... 92 00:09:17,623 --> 00:09:20,456 the great divine algebra... 93 00:09:21,127 --> 00:09:24,187 the so long-awaited Ptolemaic Empire... 94 00:09:24,263 --> 00:09:27,664 where Rome shall become Alexandria. 95 00:09:28,534 --> 00:09:31,128 You, divine Isis... 96 00:09:31,270 --> 00:09:32,669 Majesty... 97 00:09:33,072 --> 00:09:36,371 are the seventh Cleopatra. 98 00:09:36,442 --> 00:09:38,876 All the oracles... 99 00:09:38,945 --> 00:09:42,176 prophecies, divinations... 100 00:09:43,549 --> 00:09:46,848 foretell that beneath your shield... 101 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:50,878 this dream of centuries will come to be. 102 00:09:51,591 --> 00:09:54,890 Forces of all incarnations... 103 00:09:54,961 --> 00:09:56,952 and reincarnations! 104 00:09:57,029 --> 00:09:59,930 You have the power to overcome them! 105 00:09:59,999 --> 00:10:02,263 Oh divine Isis... 106 00:10:02,335 --> 00:10:04,929 majestic and eternal! 107 00:10:05,871 --> 00:10:08,305 You have, my Queen... 108 00:10:08,374 --> 00:10:10,467 the power over the man... 109 00:10:10,543 --> 00:10:14,604 with whom you will consummate this imperial union! 110 00:10:15,014 --> 00:10:15,981 Power? 111 00:10:16,482 --> 00:10:19,178 You have the power... 112 00:10:19,251 --> 00:10:22,186 and you have the gold... 113 00:10:22,822 --> 00:10:24,346 the riches. 114 00:10:25,091 --> 00:10:29,824 The great treasure that once overcame Alexander. 115 00:10:45,544 --> 00:10:48,672 What is Caesar's purpose? 116 00:10:49,482 --> 00:10:53,543 Does he have no other purpose, only his criminal desires? 117 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,551 Being Roman, two things. 118 00:10:57,923 --> 00:11:00,721 First, the gold... 119 00:11:01,293 --> 00:11:04,262 and the goods of others. 120 00:11:05,097 --> 00:11:09,830 Second, the superiority of our gods... 121 00:11:09,902 --> 00:11:13,269 our ancient and higher... 122 00:11:13,339 --> 00:11:16,570 knowledge of the sciences of the world... 123 00:11:16,642 --> 00:11:18,872 so sought-after... 124 00:11:18,944 --> 00:11:21,572 and unknown by Rome. 125 00:11:49,208 --> 00:11:52,302 The meeting point is... 126 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:55,612 here. 127 00:11:58,217 --> 00:12:00,617 Here's the secret. 128 00:12:00,686 --> 00:12:02,551 A great secret. 129 00:12:03,155 --> 00:12:06,750 Another secret unknown by Rome. 130 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,090 Lord so demanding... 131 00:12:12,765 --> 00:12:15,063 all-powerful... 132 00:12:16,302 --> 00:12:17,963 courageous... 133 00:12:18,871 --> 00:12:20,236 wisdom... 134 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:23,005 and light! 135 00:12:25,678 --> 00:12:28,772 His demands are unprecedented though. 136 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:31,243 Unprecedented? 137 00:12:31,317 --> 00:12:34,548 It decides sovereignty... 138 00:12:34,787 --> 00:12:37,551 how shall death come. 139 00:12:38,524 --> 00:12:40,856 A difficult union... 140 00:12:41,427 --> 00:12:44,225 will relieve the suffering... 141 00:12:44,897 --> 00:12:48,264 and will appease the divine desire. 142 00:15:22,054 --> 00:15:24,215 I'll play now... 143 00:15:24,623 --> 00:15:27,353 the "divine moment"! 144 00:16:49,742 --> 00:16:52,108 Divine dribble... 145 00:16:52,644 --> 00:16:55,010 foam of hatred... 146 00:16:55,447 --> 00:16:57,244 white rage... 147 00:16:57,649 --> 00:17:00,914 icy and immortal flame... 148 00:17:01,186 --> 00:17:04,246 of the immortal gods! 149 00:17:08,293 --> 00:17:11,421 I shall relieve the suffering. 150 00:17:14,166 --> 00:17:15,531 Relief... 151 00:17:16,735 --> 00:17:18,965 to the divine... 152 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:20,471 suffering! 153 00:17:27,846 --> 00:17:32,579 Has there ever been anyone that the gods has taken cared for like this? 154 00:17:38,590 --> 00:17:42,287 Flowing and resounding lymph... 155 00:17:42,361 --> 00:17:46,593 garrulous stream which murmurs softly... 156 00:17:47,232 --> 00:17:49,598 from the shade... 157 00:17:49,668 --> 00:17:51,932 and invites to slumber. 158 00:18:50,295 --> 00:18:53,458 Caesar, to be an emperor... 159 00:18:53,532 --> 00:18:55,659 is your human nature. 160 00:18:57,069 --> 00:19:00,596 For Caesar to be king is the beginning... 161 00:19:00,672 --> 00:19:02,936 of yours divine nature. 162 00:19:05,244 --> 00:19:08,543 The greatest glory of the almighty gods... 163 00:19:08,614 --> 00:19:11,447 is to make other gods! 164 00:19:13,118 --> 00:19:17,179 No power can destroy you or overcome you... 165 00:19:17,256 --> 00:19:21,022 because one battles uselessly against the other. 166 00:19:21,093 --> 00:19:24,927 Thou art god, oh great Caesar! 167 00:19:32,804 --> 00:19:36,262 On the bronze threshold... 168 00:19:36,475 --> 00:19:39,808 of the bronze stairway... 169 00:19:40,045 --> 00:19:44,607 nails the bolts with bronze. 170 00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:50,310 And let the bronze doors creak upon their hinges. 171 00:20:37,536 --> 00:20:38,764 You dog! 172 00:20:40,372 --> 00:20:41,600 You dog! 173 00:21:56,081 --> 00:22:00,415 Today, dawn broke upon me in a red-colored shroud. 174 00:22:06,625 --> 00:22:08,525 What survives? 175 00:22:09,795 --> 00:22:13,026 What do we know of this ancient realm? 176 00:22:13,665 --> 00:22:15,826 A world of severity. 177 00:22:16,635 --> 00:22:21,265 The heart of your curiosity lives in the unknown. 178 00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:26,375 What you do not see you do not understand nor suspect. 179 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,948 It goes straight to the heart and deciphers death. 180 00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:35,718 I fell ill at ease. 181 00:22:36,788 --> 00:22:40,155 My vision blurs, I hesitate... 182 00:22:40,892 --> 00:22:43,360 I no longer understand myself. 183 00:22:43,428 --> 00:22:47,888 It's the beverages that look like dreams, Caesar. 184 00:22:47,966 --> 00:22:51,458 Often we see more than we should. 185 00:22:51,536 --> 00:22:54,198 Beverages that look like dream. 186 00:22:54,272 --> 00:22:57,139 And that Rome misses. 187 00:22:58,343 --> 00:22:59,435 Rome... 188 00:23:00,645 --> 00:23:04,012 Rome is lost in the mist... 189 00:23:04,082 --> 00:23:05,447 eluded... 190 00:23:06,551 --> 00:23:07,916 mistaken. 191 00:23:09,154 --> 00:23:12,817 All we have left are wax masks. 192 00:23:15,394 --> 00:23:17,988 There are nights... 193 00:23:18,063 --> 00:23:22,898 when I see divinity in Queen Cleopatra. 194 00:23:25,003 --> 00:23:29,440 Star showered from an unknown sky... 195 00:23:32,244 --> 00:23:36,510 impossible to understand her with what we know. 196 00:23:37,616 --> 00:23:38,674 Danger! 197 00:23:40,118 --> 00:23:43,349 Venus in love with Isis? 198 00:23:44,923 --> 00:23:46,948 Forbidden love! 199 00:24:38,243 --> 00:24:40,905 We leave for Rome in two days. 200 00:24:40,979 --> 00:24:44,107 I shall awaken those senile senators far earlier! 201 00:24:44,182 --> 00:24:46,116 And make them eat less. 202 00:24:46,184 --> 00:24:50,678 I demand that the Senate declare me lmperator right away! 203 00:25:31,563 --> 00:25:34,532 Thou art King, Caesar! 204 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,132 King! 205 00:25:46,044 --> 00:25:49,411 Behold the entire cosmos! 206 00:25:50,181 --> 00:25:52,149 All the aeons! 207 00:25:55,954 --> 00:25:59,219 Desire is thirsty! 208 00:25:59,791 --> 00:26:02,726 Love is water! 209 00:26:05,964 --> 00:26:07,056 Here... 210 00:26:08,266 --> 00:26:10,598 the beautiful flower... 211 00:26:11,102 --> 00:26:13,570 the origin of all. 212 00:26:15,307 --> 00:26:17,036 The fount... 213 00:26:18,443 --> 00:26:20,843 the water of life. 214 00:26:26,217 --> 00:26:28,811 It's yours, Caesar. 215 00:26:29,287 --> 00:26:30,311 King! 216 00:26:31,756 --> 00:26:32,814 God! 217 00:26:36,561 --> 00:26:38,051 I am King! 218 00:26:39,764 --> 00:26:41,129 Goddess... 219 00:26:42,367 --> 00:26:44,267 glory of Ptolemy! 220 00:26:46,538 --> 00:26:49,473 The world is not worthy of the world. 221 00:26:49,541 --> 00:26:51,236 It has no sense. 222 00:26:51,977 --> 00:26:55,572 The Earth is earth-stained. 223 00:27:02,687 --> 00:27:05,622 Turn your eyes to heaven. 224 00:27:05,690 --> 00:27:10,354 Turn those tear-brimmed stars to the stars. 225 00:27:11,296 --> 00:27:13,856 Flower of the night... 226 00:27:14,265 --> 00:27:18,201 hides your fragrance in your fairness. 227 00:27:20,105 --> 00:27:22,300 Here I am, Caesar. 228 00:27:22,707 --> 00:27:25,608 On me, only on me... 229 00:27:26,011 --> 00:27:28,775 do polarities fuse... 230 00:27:29,347 --> 00:27:32,373 and mingle with my body. 231 00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:36,750 Greek order versus Eastern fantasies. 232 00:27:37,288 --> 00:27:40,121 Logic versus magic. 233 00:27:41,292 --> 00:27:45,285 Mathematics versus Mythology. 234 00:27:46,231 --> 00:27:49,723 Athens versus Alexandria. 235 00:27:50,969 --> 00:27:55,872 In my spirit all these forces are only one. 236 00:27:55,940 --> 00:28:00,172 I am Alexandria and I am Athens! 237 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:11,645 I wish I could abolish time... 238 00:28:11,823 --> 00:28:15,850 and remain forever in this moment! 239 00:28:15,994 --> 00:28:18,087 I am Cleopatra. 240 00:28:18,329 --> 00:28:20,524 I am Alexandria. 241 00:28:20,598 --> 00:28:22,327 I am Athens. 242 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,996 Your eyes speak more than all the libraries! 243 00:29:36,207 --> 00:29:38,539 When the flute sounds... 244 00:29:38,610 --> 00:29:42,046 time will turn in upon itself. 245 00:29:42,113 --> 00:29:46,049 Like a box within another box! 246 00:30:14,012 --> 00:30:18,005 To be proclaimed lmperator is insufficient for Rome's needs. 247 00:30:19,184 --> 00:30:23,814 One thing is to be loved and another is to be the beloved. 248 00:30:24,489 --> 00:30:27,515 Our divine nature is demanding. 249 00:30:27,592 --> 00:30:30,925 I must be proclaimed King by the Senate. 250 00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:32,929 By the Senate? 251 00:30:33,598 --> 00:30:36,590 Will they upheld the end of Republic? 252 00:30:36,668 --> 00:30:40,661 Tittle-tattle! I do not believe, Caesar. 253 00:30:42,774 --> 00:30:46,437 Do something is do more than can be done! 254 00:30:48,012 --> 00:30:51,038 Recognition with further recognition. 255 00:30:51,115 --> 00:30:53,709 One face with another one. 256 00:30:53,885 --> 00:30:56,854 King and nothing more! 257 00:32:32,016 --> 00:32:35,747 The head of the world staring at its own skull. 258 00:32:35,820 --> 00:32:38,118 The head over the skull. 259 00:32:39,190 --> 00:32:41,124 The skull is larger! 260 00:32:41,893 --> 00:32:45,989 The unbeliever who believes, the master who turns servant... 261 00:32:46,064 --> 00:32:48,897 the immortal who dies. 262 00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:52,630 Tell me, how many can the world offer? 263 00:32:53,338 --> 00:32:55,636 You know nothing. 264 00:32:55,707 --> 00:32:57,732 Nothing you know. 265 00:32:57,809 --> 00:33:02,678 Brutal conquerors, pillagers of the poor... 266 00:33:02,747 --> 00:33:05,477 buffoons as leaders! 267 00:33:06,117 --> 00:33:08,244 All is upside down! 268 00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:13,086 Our Greek inheritance was an irremediable error. 269 00:33:13,858 --> 00:33:18,818 We have vulgarly transposed what we saw on the Greek scenario... 270 00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:20,931 on the Greek world. 271 00:33:20,999 --> 00:33:23,399 We are the infinite void... 272 00:33:23,468 --> 00:33:26,801 of what we could not comprehend properly. 273 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,740 The Latin culture is the fall! 274 00:33:30,808 --> 00:33:33,276 You are this fall. 275 00:33:33,845 --> 00:33:34,812 Worms! 276 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,014 A canker gnawing at carrion of conquests. 277 00:33:40,418 --> 00:33:42,886 We now control nothing! 278 00:33:42,954 --> 00:33:45,354 A democratic chicken coop! 279 00:33:45,423 --> 00:33:49,519 I shall be proclaimed lmperator and then I shall be crowned King! 280 00:33:49,594 --> 00:33:51,926 I declare that, with Queen Cleopatra... 281 00:33:51,996 --> 00:33:54,692 I shall beget the Julian-Ptolemaic Dynasty... 282 00:33:54,766 --> 00:33:57,997 which will restore Alexander's once great Empire. 283 00:34:01,939 --> 00:34:05,602 I think that you will be unable to comprehend Cleopatra... 284 00:34:05,676 --> 00:34:09,043 since, amongst us, she has no par. 285 00:34:09,113 --> 00:34:12,241 She is a polyglot and cultured beyond her years. 286 00:34:12,316 --> 00:34:15,774 With her voice, she could crush any Roman Senator. 287 00:34:15,853 --> 00:34:20,051 They would remain more slack-jawed than ever! 288 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:27,063 Cicero! Much to our distaste, some reach heights which we cannot attain. 289 00:34:27,832 --> 00:34:28,958 Cicero? 290 00:34:29,367 --> 00:34:30,493 Cicero. 291 00:34:31,202 --> 00:34:34,501 Today, he applauds his own words in small discourses... 292 00:34:34,572 --> 00:34:36,267 declaimed to himself alone. 293 00:34:36,340 --> 00:34:38,740 He makes an idiot of himself! 294 00:34:38,810 --> 00:34:42,473 The wax on the tablets of memory has melted. 295 00:34:42,547 --> 00:34:47,416 He has shown himself weak in his useless discord with Queen Cleopatra. 296 00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:52,288 Do you know why so much strife? 297 00:34:54,559 --> 00:34:57,357 You know nothing, so I shall tell you. 298 00:34:57,995 --> 00:35:00,828 Cleopatra allowed him to cast his tired eyes... 299 00:35:00,898 --> 00:35:03,526 over some manuscripts in her great library. 300 00:35:03,601 --> 00:35:07,298 Works that he clearly did not know. 301 00:35:07,371 --> 00:35:12,206 Her favor overlooked, she forgot to give him the so desired manuscripts. 302 00:35:12,276 --> 00:35:15,211 Vain Cicero never forgave. 303 00:35:15,279 --> 00:35:18,578 There ensued a noble battle! 304 00:35:18,649 --> 00:35:20,241 Double shame! 305 00:35:21,285 --> 00:35:23,913 Thus, his friendship... 306 00:35:23,988 --> 00:35:26,684 his old age is apparent... 307 00:35:26,757 --> 00:35:29,021 shame twice over! 308 00:35:29,894 --> 00:35:32,863 In short, for the sake of brevity... 309 00:35:32,930 --> 00:35:35,899 I wish to be declared lmperator, and then King! 310 00:35:35,967 --> 00:35:39,164 The King of Rome, the King of the Roman Empire! 311 00:36:08,266 --> 00:36:10,461 She walks on stars... 312 00:36:10,535 --> 00:36:13,129 each step so soft... 313 00:36:13,204 --> 00:36:17,072 like gold, like amber, like light itself. 314 00:36:17,141 --> 00:36:19,507 So beautiful a night. 315 00:36:20,311 --> 00:36:22,575 You are beautiful... 316 00:36:23,814 --> 00:36:26,408 the most beautiful of stars. 317 00:36:36,994 --> 00:36:39,861 All venerated Caesar! 318 00:36:42,366 --> 00:36:45,062 I tell you humbly... 319 00:36:45,269 --> 00:36:49,069 you will be in great danger in the Ides of March. 320 00:36:50,174 --> 00:36:51,869 Take care... 321 00:36:52,677 --> 00:36:53,974 beware... 322 00:36:54,412 --> 00:36:56,846 keep to your home. 323 00:36:57,582 --> 00:36:59,675 - Do not... - Enough! 324 00:37:00,418 --> 00:37:01,851 Leave me! 325 00:37:47,565 --> 00:37:49,863 It is another world! 326 00:37:50,568 --> 00:37:55,096 I swear! Many times, I trembled with fear and pleasure... 327 00:37:55,172 --> 00:37:57,572 at what I saw and dreamt... 328 00:37:57,642 --> 00:38:01,942 there, life and dreams are the same. 329 00:38:02,847 --> 00:38:06,715 The rising smoke, the libations... 330 00:38:07,385 --> 00:38:09,478 decipher death... 331 00:38:09,553 --> 00:38:12,181 they overshadow the invisible... 332 00:38:12,256 --> 00:38:15,191 they bathe in the slime of horror. 333 00:38:15,259 --> 00:38:19,389 They have relations, naturally, with animals of all kinds and species. 334 00:38:19,463 --> 00:38:21,954 Various kinds and species? 335 00:38:22,033 --> 00:38:25,264 If so many, they must be different. 336 00:38:26,537 --> 00:38:29,199 Which kind of animal seduced you? 337 00:38:29,273 --> 00:38:32,800 What does immorality prefer? 338 00:38:32,877 --> 00:38:34,742 The serpents. 339 00:38:35,146 --> 00:38:38,047 Some small and thin... 340 00:38:38,683 --> 00:38:41,618 others as thick as a gladiator's arm. 341 00:39:30,067 --> 00:39:32,001 In this face... 342 00:39:33,070 --> 00:39:35,664 there is something! 343 00:39:37,007 --> 00:39:39,032 There is something! 344 00:39:39,110 --> 00:39:40,042 What? 345 00:39:43,013 --> 00:39:44,446 Ah yes! 346 00:39:45,683 --> 00:39:47,048 The viper! 347 00:39:49,820 --> 00:39:53,620 How succinct you are, beloved Caius Julius Caesar. 348 00:39:53,691 --> 00:39:57,024 Against your will, you provoke the tingle of envy. 349 00:39:57,094 --> 00:39:58,493 A toast to Caesar! 350 00:39:58,562 --> 00:40:01,053 - Long live Caesar! - To his health! 351 00:40:05,236 --> 00:40:09,366 We all pay richly with the handsomest of tributes. Death! 352 00:40:09,774 --> 00:40:11,173 We all pay! 353 00:40:11,575 --> 00:40:13,440 Parsimonious? 354 00:40:14,578 --> 00:40:17,672 Why is death so parsimonious? 355 00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:23,182 Because it does not spare no one. 356 00:40:23,788 --> 00:40:25,585 I have seen... 357 00:40:25,656 --> 00:40:28,648 all forms of agony. 358 00:40:29,593 --> 00:40:33,529 Even its mask cannot disguise terror. 359 00:40:34,565 --> 00:40:36,692 None of them! 360 00:40:47,578 --> 00:40:50,046 Such strange cold. 361 00:40:50,748 --> 00:40:53,945 I do not know. This humming... 362 00:40:54,652 --> 00:40:57,678 something has just gone by. 363 00:40:58,622 --> 00:40:59,987 The wind? 364 00:41:01,392 --> 00:41:04,293 Everything is closed. 365 00:41:04,862 --> 00:41:08,320 My wine has turned to vinegar. 366 00:41:09,266 --> 00:41:13,100 The gods must be jesting with us! 367 00:41:25,549 --> 00:41:27,676 We shall surely die. 368 00:41:27,751 --> 00:41:30,345 But with what mask? 369 00:41:30,855 --> 00:41:33,551 How do we put it on? 370 00:41:33,624 --> 00:41:34,556 When? 371 00:41:36,627 --> 00:41:39,187 What is the best kind of death? 372 00:41:39,263 --> 00:41:41,322 The unexpected. 373 00:41:49,139 --> 00:41:51,073 A toast to Caesar! 374 00:42:05,689 --> 00:42:08,419 What do the augers say? 375 00:50:20,917 --> 00:50:25,251 A commander, so beloved and admired as Mark Anthony? 376 00:50:25,622 --> 00:50:29,353 The gods, changing the positions... 377 00:50:29,426 --> 00:50:31,417 offer us this gift! 378 00:50:32,496 --> 00:50:35,329 Queen Cleopatra's great treasure... 379 00:50:35,399 --> 00:50:39,233 amassed over the centuries, is Rome's only way... 380 00:50:39,302 --> 00:50:41,998 in such dire straits... 381 00:50:42,072 --> 00:50:45,200 to grow organized and strong. 382 00:50:45,275 --> 00:50:47,675 We and our armies... 383 00:50:47,744 --> 00:50:51,407 are corrupted by another plague... 384 00:50:52,282 --> 00:50:53,340 hunger! 385 00:50:54,384 --> 00:50:59,185 Long wars, some useless, uncertain conquests. 386 00:50:59,256 --> 00:51:03,750 It has weakened our Empire even further! 387 00:51:03,827 --> 00:51:08,196 We can no longer bear such an unbearable burden. 388 00:51:08,265 --> 00:51:09,926 We shall be ruined! 389 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:13,492 Only Hercules can unload Cleopatra's treasure! 390 00:51:13,570 --> 00:51:16,630 An accursed treasure, buried in the sands of hell! 391 00:51:16,706 --> 00:51:19,231 No treasure is accursed. 392 00:51:19,509 --> 00:51:23,673 Even the sands on certain occasions... 393 00:51:23,747 --> 00:51:24,679 cool off. 394 00:51:25,015 --> 00:51:29,952 I only know this great treasure is poorly protected! 395 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,653 And it could fall into the wrong hands... 396 00:51:33,723 --> 00:51:35,554 at any moment. 397 00:51:36,726 --> 00:51:39,661 We have said very little... 398 00:51:39,729 --> 00:51:42,857 and there is much more... 399 00:51:42,933 --> 00:51:44,025 to say. 400 00:51:44,401 --> 00:51:50,271 It would seem easier to conquer Cleopatra than conquer Egypt. 401 00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:54,770 Cleopatra, that slippery queen... 402 00:51:54,845 --> 00:51:58,178 the so feared madwoman of the Orient! 403 00:51:58,248 --> 00:52:02,810 She has fornicated with her slaves since she was five years old. 404 00:52:02,886 --> 00:52:06,117 They say her love arouses hidden vices... 405 00:52:06,189 --> 00:52:08,157 without distinction... 406 00:52:08,225 --> 00:52:09,954 without limits... 407 00:52:10,026 --> 00:52:11,721 without end. 408 00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:13,994 Strong words... 409 00:52:14,564 --> 00:52:16,691 for a counselor. 410 00:52:17,467 --> 00:52:21,528 Let's us separate the precious from the commonplace. 411 00:52:21,605 --> 00:52:25,097 Dark monsters stalk the roads... 412 00:52:25,175 --> 00:52:29,509 and I walk on the road among them. 413 00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,607 There are monsters in nature. 414 00:52:32,716 --> 00:52:35,276 I myself have seen them. 415 00:52:35,352 --> 00:52:38,014 I have fought them myself. 416 00:52:39,623 --> 00:52:41,090 Cleopatra... 417 00:52:41,491 --> 00:52:43,083 is a legend. 418 00:52:43,827 --> 00:52:47,558 A legend preserved by disguise! 419 00:52:47,964 --> 00:52:49,295 A simple... 420 00:52:49,699 --> 00:52:51,633 inoffensive... 421 00:52:51,701 --> 00:52:53,032 illusion. 422 00:52:55,105 --> 00:52:57,300 A feast is all... 423 00:52:58,375 --> 00:52:59,842 it will take! 424 00:53:00,577 --> 00:53:04,035 Cleopatra will protect her treasure at any cost. 425 00:53:04,114 --> 00:53:07,948 So you must take it at any cost! 426 00:53:08,018 --> 00:53:10,987 I say "take" for lack... 427 00:53:11,054 --> 00:53:13,022 of a better word. 428 00:53:13,590 --> 00:53:15,581 Enough talk! 429 00:53:32,008 --> 00:53:36,672 The temples, the new synagogues of Delta... 430 00:53:36,746 --> 00:53:38,077 are welcome. 431 00:53:38,481 --> 00:53:42,417 They shall forever be protected by the Queen and the King. 432 00:53:42,485 --> 00:53:45,613 We shall share our bread. 433 00:53:45,689 --> 00:53:49,455 The Jewish people, under Cleopatra's rule... 434 00:53:49,526 --> 00:53:53,087 may follow their own customs and religion. 435 00:53:53,997 --> 00:53:56,659 I ensure and reaffirm 436 00:53:56,733 --> 00:54:01,295 the tradition of my ancestors with the Jews. 437 00:54:01,705 --> 00:54:04,833 Freedom to live. 438 00:54:04,908 --> 00:54:07,138 Oh, Mighty Queen! 439 00:54:07,210 --> 00:54:09,610 You are absolute, Cleopatra! 440 00:54:09,679 --> 00:54:12,079 Your discernment is sublime! 441 00:54:12,182 --> 00:54:14,343 The discernment of love! 442 00:54:14,751 --> 00:54:19,848 I extend my home and my hand to all Jews... 443 00:54:19,923 --> 00:54:22,858 from Alexandria to Arabia! 444 00:57:20,370 --> 00:57:24,431 Your Roman wife is named Fulvia? 445 00:57:27,510 --> 00:57:29,535 Yes, Fulvia. 446 00:57:29,946 --> 00:57:31,573 A noble Roman. 447 00:57:31,681 --> 00:57:32,978 I know... 448 00:57:33,716 --> 00:57:37,152 very serious, determined... 449 00:57:37,220 --> 00:57:40,246 short of stature, a small forehead... 450 00:57:40,323 --> 00:57:41,756 round-faced... 451 00:57:41,825 --> 00:57:45,818 and she sleeps sober and with a nightgown! 452 00:57:56,706 --> 00:57:59,903 My father Ptolemy Xll... 453 00:57:59,976 --> 00:58:04,881 called himself "Neo-Dionysus", the New Dionysus... 454 00:58:04,881 --> 00:58:08,044 so enamored was he of music... 455 00:58:08,117 --> 00:58:10,108 but that is not all. 456 00:58:12,489 --> 00:58:17,051 Are you, General, unaware of Dionysus's ambiguous sexual nature? 457 00:58:17,126 --> 00:58:18,058 Are you? 458 00:58:20,563 --> 00:58:25,500 I see that you are not a devout follower. 459 00:58:26,002 --> 00:58:29,597 Your inebriated sobriety is not so sober... 460 00:58:29,672 --> 00:58:31,697 very like a man! 461 00:58:33,343 --> 00:58:37,473 Dionysus enjoyed dressing as a woman. 462 00:58:39,282 --> 00:58:43,946 I have never seen you dressed as a woman, General! 463 00:58:45,288 --> 00:58:47,654 After Pompeius... 464 00:58:47,724 --> 00:58:51,353 and Julius Caesar's death... 465 00:58:51,427 --> 00:58:53,486 I am lord... 466 00:58:53,897 --> 00:58:56,263 of the world! 467 00:58:56,332 --> 00:58:57,924 Indeed! 468 00:58:58,334 --> 00:58:59,460 Indeed! 469 00:58:59,536 --> 00:59:02,437 No one could doubt... 470 00:59:02,505 --> 00:59:05,565 your strength and power. 471 00:59:08,311 --> 00:59:10,211 It is clear for all to see. 472 00:59:12,282 --> 00:59:13,476 However... 473 00:59:14,217 --> 00:59:18,551 I must tell the great General Mark Anthony... 474 00:59:18,621 --> 00:59:21,852 that his Roman wife, Fulvia... 475 00:59:21,925 --> 00:59:23,790 is looking high... 476 00:59:23,860 --> 00:59:26,226 and low for him... 477 00:59:26,296 --> 00:59:27,661 with an army! 478 00:59:29,065 --> 00:59:33,468 General, an army is in hot pursuit. 479 00:59:33,536 --> 00:59:36,767 Your wife wants you back... 480 00:59:36,839 --> 00:59:39,569 and will rescue you at any cost! 481 00:59:39,642 --> 00:59:41,837 She is on her way! 482 00:59:41,911 --> 00:59:46,610 She may arrive here tomorrow, very early... 483 00:59:46,683 --> 00:59:48,514 at dawn... 484 00:59:48,918 --> 00:59:52,547 after her beloved sweetheart... 485 00:59:52,622 --> 00:59:55,182 Oh love! 486 01:00:28,658 --> 01:00:32,389 The great divine plan still moves. 487 01:00:32,462 --> 01:00:36,694 Alexandria, our past, our realm... 488 01:00:36,766 --> 01:00:39,701 will soon be the centre of the world. 489 01:00:40,036 --> 01:00:43,335 The victory of Isis over Venus! 490 01:00:43,406 --> 01:00:45,271 The heavenly powers are in motion! 491 01:00:45,341 --> 01:00:49,971 Anthony is not Caesar and he never will be. 492 01:00:50,947 --> 01:00:54,678 Caesar was overwhelmed by our world. 493 01:00:54,751 --> 01:00:57,618 Anthony would like to reap its benefits. 494 01:00:57,687 --> 01:01:00,178 You would never understand him. 495 01:01:00,256 --> 01:01:03,692 He is a tireless warrior... 496 01:01:05,128 --> 01:01:07,323 even defeated... 497 01:01:07,397 --> 01:01:11,356 he must be greeted in Alexandria... 498 01:01:11,434 --> 01:01:14,835 with honor and jubilation. 499 01:01:17,540 --> 01:01:19,701 Coins shall be struck... 500 01:01:19,776 --> 01:01:22,904 to celebrate his victorious deeds... 501 01:01:22,979 --> 01:01:25,846 our victorious deeds... 502 01:01:26,249 --> 01:01:29,946 and thrown into the crowds! 503 01:01:34,490 --> 01:01:38,984 It is indeed brilliant to elude the public! 504 01:01:39,796 --> 01:01:44,733 We will strike coins showing Cleopatra and Anthony. 505 01:01:46,235 --> 01:01:50,695 Coins with Cleopatra and Anthony! 506 01:01:51,774 --> 01:01:53,742 Isis and Bacchus! 507 01:01:53,810 --> 01:01:57,337 See to it immediately! 508 01:01:57,747 --> 01:02:01,615 May everyone know! Isis triumphs! 509 01:02:02,085 --> 01:02:05,521 Isis triumphs! 510 01:05:04,767 --> 01:05:06,496 Terrible news! 511 01:05:10,706 --> 01:05:12,367 Fulvia... 512 01:05:15,211 --> 01:05:16,644 is dead! 513 01:05:19,749 --> 01:05:24,311 Octavius Caesar wishes to see me... 514 01:05:24,387 --> 01:05:25,820 at once. 515 01:05:29,125 --> 01:05:30,524 Fulvia! 516 01:05:31,260 --> 01:05:34,525 A great spirit has passed on... 517 01:05:37,500 --> 01:05:39,491 but it is as I wished. 518 01:05:41,837 --> 01:05:43,361 I have to leave! 519 01:05:46,976 --> 01:05:48,876 Are you going to Rome? 520 01:05:50,846 --> 01:05:52,108 At once. 521 01:05:57,586 --> 01:06:00,487 I should have done with five young slaves... 522 01:06:00,556 --> 01:06:03,457 last night, what I did with you. 523 01:06:05,928 --> 01:06:10,297 You are just a rude and unruly soldier. 524 01:06:13,769 --> 01:06:16,203 I am no Egyptian whore... 525 01:06:16,272 --> 01:06:19,435 who opens her legs at your call! 526 01:06:24,747 --> 01:06:28,114 What will you do now? 527 01:06:28,517 --> 01:06:31,816 Spread it abroad in the alleyways of Rome? 528 01:06:32,221 --> 01:06:35,281 The last great deed of the muddle-headed ruffian... 529 01:06:35,358 --> 01:06:38,088 who tore Cleopatra apart? 530 01:06:39,228 --> 01:06:41,025 You simple-minded fisherman! 531 01:06:41,097 --> 01:06:43,031 Say what you will. 532 01:06:49,171 --> 01:06:50,763 I must leave now! 533 01:08:03,245 --> 01:08:06,646 As I pull on the reed... 534 01:08:08,517 --> 01:08:11,350 a secret is perceived. 535 01:08:11,754 --> 01:08:14,723 Once again the bloodstained omen. 536 01:08:14,790 --> 01:08:18,089 The knife stabs deep. 537 01:08:36,178 --> 01:08:37,805 Who is Octavia? 538 01:08:41,117 --> 01:08:46,054 Octavia, the pious, the serene, cold and motherly sister of Octavius Caesar. 539 01:08:46,122 --> 01:08:49,580 She will marry Anthony to unite the Roman Empire. 540 01:08:49,658 --> 01:08:53,560 - Be quiet! - I am only a seer who sees. 541 01:08:53,629 --> 01:08:56,598 You shall not talk to the Queen! 542 01:08:57,633 --> 01:09:00,397 I long for when her spirits maybe. 543 01:09:00,469 --> 01:09:01,731 Iras... 544 01:09:10,913 --> 01:09:12,039 Octavia? 545 01:09:12,148 --> 01:09:15,379 Have you heard her speak? 546 01:09:15,784 --> 01:09:17,809 Can she speak? 547 01:09:17,887 --> 01:09:21,015 What is her voice like? 548 01:09:22,258 --> 01:09:24,886 Is her voice shrill or low? 549 01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:27,394 Her voice is deep. 550 01:09:29,265 --> 01:09:32,063 Then, Anthony will not like her for long. 551 01:09:32,134 --> 01:09:34,932 Like her, my Queen? 552 01:09:35,004 --> 01:09:36,494 Lmpossible! 553 01:09:36,572 --> 01:09:38,938 Hard on the ears! 554 01:09:39,008 --> 01:09:41,704 And hard on the eyes! 555 01:09:41,777 --> 01:09:44,041 How is her posture? 556 01:09:44,113 --> 01:09:45,876 Is she majestic? 557 01:09:45,948 --> 01:09:49,714 Moving or still, she is the same. Her body she shows... 558 01:09:49,785 --> 01:09:51,047 but no life. 559 01:09:53,055 --> 01:09:54,818 How old is she? 560 01:09:54,890 --> 01:09:57,518 - She is a widow. - A widow? 561 01:09:58,928 --> 01:10:03,262 Then she ate of an unripe fruit, no doubt! 562 01:10:03,666 --> 01:10:05,258 Maybe she knows... 563 01:10:07,670 --> 01:10:11,265 A widow! You hear that? 564 01:10:11,340 --> 01:10:13,365 She is 30. 565 01:10:17,246 --> 01:10:20,909 - Is she long or round-faced? - Round-faced. 566 01:10:21,317 --> 01:10:25,777 There, they overeat! Of everything, like pigs! 567 01:10:25,854 --> 01:10:27,981 What color is her hair? 568 01:10:28,057 --> 01:10:31,356 Brown. Her forehead is short, like all in her class. 569 01:10:31,427 --> 01:10:33,224 She sleeps clothed! 570 01:10:39,168 --> 01:10:43,400 Anthony will soon be back, my dear Isis! 571 01:10:43,973 --> 01:10:47,306 That Roman woman... 572 01:10:47,376 --> 01:10:51,210 has no idea of majesty! 573 01:11:07,129 --> 01:11:09,563 You do not seem yourself. 574 01:11:10,666 --> 01:11:14,432 You're lost, distant... 575 01:11:15,838 --> 01:11:17,066 and so cold. 576 01:11:18,874 --> 01:11:21,308 What is the matter, Anthony? 577 01:11:22,278 --> 01:11:23,370 It's... 578 01:11:25,981 --> 01:11:27,846 some memories. 579 01:11:29,251 --> 01:11:31,116 Memories? 580 01:11:32,254 --> 01:11:35,621 A man with a dark cloud hanging over him. 581 01:11:35,691 --> 01:11:40,151 The prisoner and slave of a witch. 582 01:11:41,764 --> 01:11:44,028 You have shrunk yourself. 583 01:11:46,535 --> 01:11:50,403 Octavia, I do not wish to hurt you. 584 01:11:51,373 --> 01:11:52,840 I do not know. 585 01:11:54,977 --> 01:11:56,808 I do not know... 586 01:11:58,714 --> 01:12:01,080 and the question... 587 01:12:02,151 --> 01:12:04,142 lies in my not knowing. 588 01:12:05,521 --> 01:12:07,250 Melancholy! 589 01:12:08,557 --> 01:12:11,082 You have become a slave. 590 01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:12,957 Slavery! 591 01:12:15,431 --> 01:12:19,993 Seduced by the serpent! Your blood has run dry! 592 01:12:22,237 --> 01:12:24,330 You know nothing... 593 01:12:26,241 --> 01:12:29,938 Octavia, my feelings... 594 01:12:30,012 --> 01:12:31,741 are my own. 595 01:12:36,118 --> 01:12:38,780 Anthony has become a statue. 596 01:12:39,888 --> 01:12:43,949 A Silenus of ice and boredom. 597 01:15:45,507 --> 01:15:47,907 If strong hearts... 598 01:15:47,976 --> 01:15:51,742 should weaken before the giddy... 599 01:15:52,514 --> 01:15:56,245 unyielding love. 600 01:15:57,152 --> 01:16:01,555 Of Mark Anthony, his beloved will fade beneath his fame... 601 01:16:01,623 --> 01:16:06,617 to be so fond of Cleopatra. 602 01:17:21,970 --> 01:17:25,201 In the torque of forms... 603 01:17:25,440 --> 01:17:29,035 the glittering crystal of dreams. 604 01:17:57,072 --> 01:17:59,632 I shall give you... 605 01:17:59,708 --> 01:18:02,700 a library of Pergamus... 606 01:18:04,846 --> 01:18:08,509 over 20 thousand of them! 607 01:18:10,052 --> 01:18:13,852 A library for my library? 608 01:18:13,922 --> 01:18:14,854 Really? 609 01:18:14,923 --> 01:18:16,550 Is it true? 610 01:18:17,926 --> 01:18:20,417 How handsome you are, Anthony... 611 01:18:20,495 --> 01:18:22,963 ever more handsome! 612 01:18:23,699 --> 01:18:24,859 Love. 613 01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:26,931 My love. 614 01:19:43,211 --> 01:19:46,009 Hail Amimetobion! 615 01:19:46,081 --> 01:19:47,105 We... 616 01:19:47,182 --> 01:19:51,881 beings of inimitable lives! 617 01:20:00,629 --> 01:20:05,032 Rome is great for what it gives... 618 01:20:05,433 --> 01:20:07,196 not for what it takes! 619 01:20:07,936 --> 01:20:10,496 Long live inimitable lives! 620 01:20:11,139 --> 01:20:12,936 Amimetobion! 621 01:21:33,722 --> 01:21:36,520 One abyss calls another. 622 01:21:38,894 --> 01:21:40,759 A dark abyss... 623 01:21:41,863 --> 01:21:43,660 a smoky shape. 624 01:21:49,104 --> 01:21:51,436 I want to eat your tongue... 625 01:21:52,807 --> 01:21:54,672 a tongue of stone... 626 01:21:56,011 --> 01:21:58,036 the tongue of tomorrow. 627 01:23:09,918 --> 01:23:12,853 The light of Isis has blinded... 628 01:23:12,921 --> 01:23:15,389 rather than illuminated her! 629 01:23:16,925 --> 01:23:20,622 Let us embrace our end. 630 01:23:23,231 --> 01:23:26,962 The disaster of our great celestial plan... 631 01:23:27,035 --> 01:23:28,093 is certain. 632 01:23:28,970 --> 01:23:33,464 The serpent of Isis has engulfed its own tail! 633 01:23:34,943 --> 01:23:36,740 The abyss... 634 01:23:36,811 --> 01:23:39,245 the end of time... 635 01:23:40,482 --> 01:23:41,881 darkness... 636 01:23:42,717 --> 01:23:44,116 shadows... 637 01:23:45,286 --> 01:23:49,188 unfathomable mineral mourning. 638 01:23:51,659 --> 01:23:53,650 Venerated death... 639 01:23:54,629 --> 01:23:56,563 descend upon us! 640 01:24:51,786 --> 01:24:55,654 Hercules has abandoned him. He has lost the battle. 641 01:24:56,057 --> 01:24:58,787 The war is lost... 642 01:24:58,860 --> 01:25:03,593 all semen has been thrown down the drains of Alexandria. 643 01:25:03,998 --> 01:25:07,024 Mania has surpassed its limits! 644 01:25:08,169 --> 01:25:11,866 One of the pillars of the world has been transformed into a clown. 645 01:25:11,940 --> 01:25:13,635 His health wilts! 646 01:25:14,375 --> 01:25:18,311 The battle lion has lost its claws, teeth... 647 01:25:18,379 --> 01:25:19,778 and mane... 648 01:25:20,181 --> 01:25:22,775 and now, finally... 649 01:25:22,851 --> 01:25:23,977 its roar! 650 01:25:24,919 --> 01:25:27,410 The long winter of Alexandria. 651 01:25:27,822 --> 01:25:33,158 Let us go over to the side of Octavius Caesar. Or is it too late? 652 01:26:46,401 --> 01:26:47,993 Minotaur... 653 01:26:48,970 --> 01:26:50,562 Minotaur... 654 01:26:51,506 --> 01:26:53,098 Minotaur... 655 01:26:54,209 --> 01:26:55,801 Minotaur... 656 01:26:58,413 --> 01:26:59,971 Minotaur... 657 01:27:01,115 --> 01:27:02,776 Minotaur... 658 01:27:02,984 --> 01:27:04,576 Minotaur... 659 01:27:17,699 --> 01:27:20,190 The fire of the universe... 660 01:27:20,268 --> 01:27:23,931 blood-red entrails... 661 01:27:24,706 --> 01:27:27,334 bacchanalian flesh... 662 01:27:27,408 --> 01:27:29,774 bite me... 663 01:27:30,178 --> 01:27:32,647 burn through me... 664 01:27:32,647 --> 01:27:35,013 immortal! 665 01:28:31,673 --> 01:28:33,834 Synapothanamenon... 666 01:28:35,310 --> 01:28:40,179 we who are to die together! 667 01:30:26,087 --> 01:30:28,385 My time... 668 01:30:29,290 --> 01:30:31,258 has come. 669 01:30:33,594 --> 01:30:36,791 I wish to shorten what is left of my life. 670 01:30:39,333 --> 01:30:42,791 I think of the powerful blue venom of dreams... 671 01:30:44,005 --> 01:30:46,872 the blue eternal dream... 672 01:30:49,877 --> 01:30:54,143 the promise of eternal bliss. 673 01:30:56,651 --> 01:30:58,175 Therefore... 674 01:30:59,821 --> 01:31:01,618 dear Master... 675 01:31:02,824 --> 01:31:04,052 Olympus... 676 01:31:05,993 --> 01:31:07,654 respected... 677 01:31:08,729 --> 01:31:10,128 influential... 678 01:31:12,033 --> 01:31:13,523 and beloved... 679 01:31:15,036 --> 01:31:17,197 make your potions... 680 01:31:17,605 --> 01:31:20,972 for I have made with pleasure... 681 01:31:21,375 --> 01:31:22,467 my choice! 682 01:31:24,378 --> 01:31:26,073 No, my Queen. 683 01:31:27,181 --> 01:31:31,242 Do not shorten the magnificence of your life! 684 01:31:32,787 --> 01:31:34,652 Do not! I beg you! 685 01:31:36,057 --> 01:31:39,618 Do not entrust such extreme gesture... 686 01:31:39,694 --> 01:31:43,630 so antagonistic to the harmony of your soul. 687 01:31:43,698 --> 01:31:45,563 Do not, my Queen... 688 01:31:45,967 --> 01:31:48,162 No! Suicide, never! 689 01:31:48,903 --> 01:31:51,963 You are the Divinity itself! 690 01:34:15,449 --> 01:34:17,007 I will die... 691 01:34:20,287 --> 01:34:23,381 without dying. 692 01:38:08,782 --> 01:38:12,013 Noble Octavius Caesar, Augustus Caesar... 693 01:38:12,586 --> 01:38:14,747 I ask your forgiveness. 694 01:38:16,590 --> 01:38:17,818 Forgiveness? 695 01:38:19,927 --> 01:38:21,292 Why? 696 01:38:28,068 --> 01:38:29,558 A Queen. 697 01:38:31,672 --> 01:38:33,367 You are a Queen! 698 01:38:34,975 --> 01:38:37,443 You acted as one. 699 01:38:40,814 --> 01:38:43,374 I wish to protect you. 700 01:38:45,552 --> 01:38:48,487 You have nothing to fear from me. 701 01:38:56,830 --> 01:38:59,924 I am no more than a woman. 702 01:39:00,334 --> 01:39:05,431 Overcame by the passions that overwhelm any common woman. 703 01:39:07,942 --> 01:39:09,842 Oh, Cleopatra! 704 01:39:11,879 --> 01:39:15,610 Do not give way to such dark thoughts. 705 01:39:17,217 --> 01:39:19,151 What is past is past. 706 01:39:22,089 --> 01:39:25,718 We are more inclined to forgive than punish. 707 01:39:28,228 --> 01:39:31,197 Punishment never crossed my mind. 708 01:39:32,633 --> 01:39:34,123 I swear to you. 709 01:39:42,443 --> 01:39:46,937 I have here a list of goods I would pass on to you. 710 01:39:48,716 --> 01:39:50,047 My treasure. 711 01:39:52,319 --> 01:39:53,513 No. 712 01:39:55,889 --> 01:39:57,948 It is all still yours. 713 01:40:00,894 --> 01:40:05,831 Caesar does not traffic what merchants sell. 714 01:40:08,335 --> 01:40:10,166 Keep them all... 715 01:40:11,905 --> 01:40:14,465 and your serenity. 716 01:40:19,213 --> 01:40:21,078 No, dear Queen... 717 01:40:22,750 --> 01:40:27,687 we intend to take your own advice. 718 01:40:30,224 --> 01:40:31,418 Eat... 719 01:40:33,660 --> 01:40:35,093 and sleep. 720 01:40:37,197 --> 01:40:41,600 Let our care and mercy covers you. 721 01:40:44,905 --> 01:40:47,032 My Lord and Master. 722 01:40:51,378 --> 01:40:53,243 Do not call me that. 723 01:40:55,182 --> 01:40:59,585 What do you intend to do with me? 724 01:41:06,427 --> 01:41:09,863 Firstly, let you recover... 725 01:41:12,699 --> 01:41:13,961 then... 726 01:41:16,370 --> 01:41:19,168 I want you to come to Rome with me. 727 01:41:22,543 --> 01:41:24,977 In a triumphal procession? 728 01:41:26,213 --> 01:41:30,513 How generous you are... 729 01:41:30,584 --> 01:41:32,848 great Caesar! 730 01:41:55,442 --> 01:41:57,410 I leave you now. 731 01:41:59,046 --> 01:42:00,570 Be calm... 732 01:42:00,981 --> 01:42:04,041 and regain your strength. 733 01:42:08,322 --> 01:42:09,721 Good-bye. 734 01:42:35,582 --> 01:42:38,983 As insatiable in life... 735 01:42:39,052 --> 01:42:40,917 as in death... 736 01:42:41,321 --> 01:42:45,052 even after death! 737 01:42:49,530 --> 01:42:52,556 He showers me with promises... 738 01:42:53,167 --> 01:42:56,568 so that I cannot be noble to myself. 739 01:42:58,038 --> 01:43:02,304 But listen, Carmina and Iras... 740 01:43:03,544 --> 01:43:07,071 to be carried as a trophy... 741 01:43:07,147 --> 01:43:11,345 in Octavius's procession through the streets of Rome? 742 01:43:12,119 --> 01:43:13,484 Never! 743 01:43:14,988 --> 01:43:19,220 To smell the fetid breathe of sewers... 744 01:43:19,293 --> 01:43:22,592 coming from mouths which devour all. 745 01:43:23,197 --> 01:43:24,960 Dreadful! 746 01:43:26,200 --> 01:43:28,930 No! Piffling Caesar! 747 01:43:29,002 --> 01:43:30,867 Never! 748 01:43:31,939 --> 01:43:33,497 No! 749 01:43:39,646 --> 01:43:43,082 The Earth is called Earth... 750 01:43:43,150 --> 01:43:46,313 because it is earth-stained. 751 01:43:46,386 --> 01:43:50,220 As a King once told me. 752 01:43:50,290 --> 01:43:51,985 A great man. 753 01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:14,000 Done by (c) dCd / October 2008