Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Language
- Latin
- Country
- Italy, United Kingdom
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Latin — subtitles on.
The story
Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. Sebastian becomes the target of lust for the officer Severus, but repeatedly rejects the man's advances. Castigated for his Christian faith, he is tortured, humiliated and ultimately killed.
- fight
- exile
- ancient rome
- torture
- execution
- slow motion
- pacifist
- pagan
- homoeroticism
- hunt
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Donald Dunham — Claudius
- Ken Hicks — Adrian
- Janusz Romanov — Anthony
- Steffano Massari — Marius
- Daevid Finbar — Julian
- Gerald Incandela — Leopard Boy
- Robert Medley — Diocletian
- Lindsay Kemp — Dancer
- Pamela Rooke — Madame Morgana, Emperor's Guest
- Nell Campbell — Emperor's Guest
- Patricia Quinn — Emperor's Guest
- Directed
- Derek Jarman, Paul Humfress
- Written
- Derek Jarman, James Whaley, Paul Humfress
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 86 ratings
- Studio
- Megalovision, Cinegate, Disctac
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
