Quo Vadis?

Quo Vadis?

120 mins | Drama, History | March 1, 1913

During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young Christian hostage named Lygia. "Quo Vadis?" is a landmark in epic film-- Certainly Enrico Guazzoni’s grand-scale masterpiece laid the foundations for what colossal Italian spectacles would become. The film had tremendous influence on Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria (1914) and D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).

Quo Vadis?

120 mins | Drama, History | March 1, 1913

Quo Vadis?
During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young Christian hostage named Lygia. "Quo Vadis?" is a landmark in epic film-- Certainly Enrico Guazzoni’s grand-scale masterpiece laid the foundations for what colossal Italian spectacles would become. The film had tremendous influence on Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria (1914) and D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Società Italiana Cines
Original title Quo Vadis?
Directors Enrico Guazzoni
Writers Enrico Guazzoni, Henryk Sienkiewicz

Cast

Amleto Novelli

as Vinicius

Gustavo Serena

as Petronius

Bruto Castellani

as Ursus

Amelia Cattaneo

as Eunice

Carlo Cattaneo

as Nero

Lea Giunchi

as Lygia

Cesare Moltini

as Tigellinus

Olga Brandini

as Poppaea

Ignazio Lupi

as Aulus

Giovanni Gizzi

as Saint Peter