Plot
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have to die first. She accepts the proposal. Back in Rome, Nero, now being raised by emperor Claudius after Caligula's death, Agrippina returns. She poisons Claudius' food and Nero becomes emperor. At first, Nero cuts taxes and introduces successful programs and invades Brittania. Soon he meets a beautiful slave named Claudia Acte, and marries her, throwing off his engagement with Claudius' daughter, Claudia Octavia, telling her she can marry someone she will be happy with. Heartbroken, she arrives at an island and kills herself. Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome.
Cast
as Nerone
as Agrippina
as Atte
as Messalina
as Licia
as Nerone giovane
as Rufus
as Silus
as Apollonio
as Senatore #1
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
May 23, 2004
Last Aired Date
May 24, 2004
Production Companies
Lux Vide
EOS Entertainment
Nero Production
Blue Star Movies
LuxVide
Quinta Communications
Carthago Films
RAI
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
2
Links
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Reviews
Confidently following in the footsteps of Sir Peter Ustinov and Klaus Maria Brandauer was always going to be a tough ask, and sadly Hans Matheson isn’t really up to it. To be fair, that isn’t entirely his fault. This whole meandering drama tries to abridge it’s Robert Graves and it’s Suetonius into three hours and that was simply never going to be enough airtime to do justice to all the plotting …