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Caligula (1979)

★ 6.0 · 976 ratings on TMDB

Absolute power corrupts

Caligula poster★ 6.0

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

DirectorTinto Brass
CastGiancarlo Badessi, Guido Mannari, Helen Mirren, John Steiner, Leopoldo Trieste, Malcolm McDowell
GenresDrama, History
The emergence reading

Caligula keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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