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Germanikus

Comedy

The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda. He manages to escape, but only to end up in the next misery as a taster at the imperial court. When the emperor dies, he is arrested as an emperor's assassin and is to be thrown to the tigers in the arena.With the help of the black slave Saba, he manages to win the deadly fight and is proclaimed - against his will - the new emperor of the Roman Empire.His pragmatic ideas as a statesman explain why the Roman Empire ended so abruptly. At the side of Saba, who is elevated to empress, he returns to his home village of Sumpfing, where he now promises himself completely new perspectives ...

Date: 03/26/2004

Rating: 3.4

Cast: Gerhard Polt, Gisela Schneeberger, Rufus Beck, Aïssatou Thiam, Anke Engelke, Bernhard Hoëcker, Hilmi Sözer, Manfred Lehmann, Martin Schneider, Tom Gerhardt, Moritz Bleibtreu, Andreas Hofmann, Irm Hermann, Nikolaus Paryla, Annette Frier, Claudia Wipplinger, Jessica Kosmalla, Michael Schreiner, Viktor Giacobbo, Nadia Rinaldi, Alvaro Solar, Simone Luzi, Emilio De Marchi, Petra Reinhardt, Krassimir Ivanov, Daniele Ferretti, Franco Bertipaglia, Ettore Riccobono, Matteo Bilello, Rick Boyd, Roberto Cardone, Roberto D'Alessandro, Gianluca Del Mastro, Maria Cristina Maccà, Daniele Natali, Pietro Torrisi, Danilo Maria Valli, Giancarlo Viola, Taiyo Yamanouchi, Manuel Celani, Daniele Coletta, Raffaello Converso, Francesco Cutrona, Dylan D'Angelo, Vinicio Recchi, Vincenzo Suma, Antonio Spinnato

Gerhard Polt