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Synopsis: An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the macedonian king that conquered all ancient greek tribes and led macedonian army against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to India.
Director(s): Robert Rossen
Production: United Artists
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Year:
1956
141 min
1,980 Views


Cleitus is back.

Cleitus?

Cleitus. Black Cleitus!

- King.

- Companion.

Lucky Cleitus, to be the only one

amongst us chosen to go to war.

- For war you need men.

- Three years doesn't make a man.

What does, Philotas?

The news, friend. The news. My father?

He's well. He sends you greetings.

As do all your fathers.

- Were there many victories?

- Does the sun rise every morning?

- We even raided Persian soil.

- Persia!

Across the Bosphorus one night -

a quick, short, sharp raid.

Before they knew it,

we'd sacked three towns.

A Greek army on Persian soil -

the dream of Greece for 200 years,

and to Philip goes the glory.

Hail, Philip.

Hail, Philip!

Cleitus, why did my father send you here?

To train new troops and bring them back.

- And us?

- To train you, too, as always.

- And bring us back, too?

- I have no orders concerning that.

- Hail, Philip!

- Your father means you well.

I mean him well, and love him.

But he hoards his glory like a miser,

while we sit at the feet of Aristotle

and learn of great wonders of science,

of mathematics and of logic.

And maybe one of us will write a book

and be known as the pupil of Aristotle!

Aristotle... forgive me.

For what? You spoke like a king.

I, like a teacher.

- Your blood ran quick, too?

- At Cleitus' tale of the Persian raid? Yes.

For in that act I saw something

that might unite our torn and bloody land,

and put an end to Greeks killing Greeks,

and send them marching

under Philip on their holy mission -

to conquer Persia and destroy it.

Will Greece follow my father?

I do not know. Neither does he. Men

do not easily forget years of slaughter

and burning and pillage,

and deep and bitter hatreds.

And the cry of "Philip the Barbarian"

still echoes through the land.

He may conquer, but he will not rule.

Do you know how vast

the Persian Empire is?

From the Nile to the Indus,

from Samarkand to Babylon.

And beyond. Do you know

how many different people live there?

By heart. Carians, Armenians,

Jews, Parthians, Egyptians.

- I know their customs and their gods.

- Yes.

For this is more than an empire,

this is Colossus.

To rule it would take a man

as great as you can be.

That is why I say patience.

Patience? My time is short.

Short?

When the great god Zeus,

father of Achilles,

gave him his choice between a long life of

obscurity and a short one filled with glory,

he chose glory.

So did I.

Achilles died young.

Your friends are waiting for you

on the field. It's your turn to throw.

We Greeks are the chosen, the elect.

Our culture is the best,

our civilisation the best, our men the best.

- Now watch.

- (Aristotle) All others are barbarians,

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Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961 he directed The Hustler, which was nominated for nine Oscars and won two. After directing and writing for the stage in New York, Rossen moved to Hollywood in 1937. There he worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. until 1941, and then interrupted his career to serve until 1944 as the chairman of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization, a body to organize writers for the effort in World War II. In 1945 he joined a picket line against Warner Bros. After making one film for Hal Wallis's newly formed production company, Rossen made one for Columbia Pictures, another for Wallis and most of his later films for his own companies, usually in collaboration with Columbia. Rossen was a member of the American Communist Party from 1937 to about 1947, and believed the Party was "dedicated to social causes of the sort that we as poor Jews from New York were interested in."He ended all relations with the Party in 1949. Rossen was twice called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in 1951 and in 1953. He exercised his Fifth Amendment rights at his first appearance, refusing to state whether he had ever been a Communist. As a result, he found himself blacklisted by Hollywood studios as well as unable to renew his passport. At his second appearance he named 57 people as current or former Communists and his blacklisting ended. In order to repair finances he produced his next film, Mambo, in Italy in 1954. While The Hustler in 1961 was a great success, conflicts on the set of Lilith so disillusioned him that it was his last film. more…

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