![]() However, weaving a tale of all the major players in this drama, and throwing out possible scenarios, Steven Saylor created a highly readable and enjoyable book that makes you wonder at all the possibilities. Seems like a monumental task and considering the outcome we all know it was mission impossible. Hired by Cicero, Gordianus is also slated because of his adopted son's closeness to Caesar, to become an esteemed senator. Yet, Gordianus the Finder, a man who has solved many a crime in and around Rome, is tasked to discover if there is a plot afoot to murder Caesar. “Beware the ides of March.” There would be no escaping the fate the gods had in store for him. It was his fate to be viciously murdered on the foretold Ides of March. Because the Ides of March are approaching.Ĥ4 AD was not a good time to be Julius Caesar. With only four days left before he’s made a Senator, Gordianus must dust off his old skills and see what conspiracy against Julius Caesar, if any, he can uncover. To honor Meto, Caesar is going to make his father Gordianus a Senator when he attends the next session on the 15th of March. ![]() ![]() Gordianus’s adopted son Meto has long been one of Caesar’s closest confidants. Caesar, however, has one other important matter to discuss. Both have the same request of Gordianus―keep your ear to the ground, ask around, and find out if there are any conspiracies against Caesar’s life. On the morning of March 10th, though, he’s first summoned to meet with Cicero and then with Caesar himself. Gordianus the Finder, after decades of investigating crimes and murders involving the powerful, has set aside enough that he’s been raised to the Equestrian rank and has firmly and finally retired. Having pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded his friends, Caesar is now preparing to leave Rome with his army to fight the Parthian Empire. Julius Caesar has been appointed dictator for life by the Roman Senate. Mamma Roma also met with criticism from the left, and its domestic box office was a humble 168 million lira.In The Throne of Caesar, award-winning mystery author Steven Saylor turns to the most famous murder in history: It’s Rome, 44 BC, and the Ides of March are approaching. On the night of the film's release in the Quattro Fontane Cinema in Rome on 22 September 1962, Pasolini was confronted with protesting neo-fascists and got involved in a scuffle. ![]() On the same day, a police complaint was filed, claiming that the film was "offensive to good morals" and "contrary to public decency" for the language used, but the complaint was turned down by a magistrate five days later. On 31 August 1962, Mamma Roma premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Pasolini, unhappy with Magnani's interpretation of the title role, expanded Citti's role of Carmine, but the production was temporarily halted when Citti was arrested for a petty crime. Shooting began on 9 April 1962, with a cast that largely consisted of non-professionals. Pasolini based his screenplay for Mamma Roma on the true case of Marcello Elisei, who had died in prison. Caught during a theft in a hospital, Ettore dies in jail from a fever, leaving behind his grieving, desperate mother. When Mamma Roma is forced back into prostitution by Carmine and Ettore finds out about it, he returns to his previous habits. She finds him a job as a waiter by blackmailing a trattoria owner and tries to draw him away from his thieving friends and occasional streetwalker Bruna. Synopsis Īfter her pimp Carmine has gotten married, prostitute Mamma Roma starts a new life as a marketer in Rome to enable her 16-year-old son Ettore a better life. Mamma Roma is a 1962 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo and Franco Citti.
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