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Cleopatra full movie is released on Jul 31, 1963. Watch Cleopatra online - the English Biography movie from Switzerland , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $57,777,778. Cleopatra is directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and created by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Cleopatra is available online on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel.

In 48 B.C., Julius Caesar (Sir Rex Harrison) pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan), now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister, Cleopatra VII (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey, borne by his governors, Pothinus (Grégoire Aslan) and Achillas (John Doucette). To win Caesar's support from her brother, Cleopatra hides herself in a rug, which Apollodorus (Cesare Danova), her servant, presents to Caesar. The Roman is immediately infatuated. Banishing Ptolemy, he declares Cleopatra Egypt's sole ruler and takes her as his mistress. A son, Caesarion (Loris Loddi), is born of their union. Caesar, however, must return to Italy. Although he is briefly reunited with Cleopatra during a magnificent reception for the Queen in Rome, Caesar is assassinated shortly thereafter, and Cleopatra returns to Egypt. When Mark Antony (Richard Burton), Caesar's protégé, beholds Cleopatra aboard her elaborate barge at Tarsus some years later, he is smitten and becomes both her lover and military ally. Their liaison notwithstanding, Antony, to consolidate his position in Rome, marries Octavia (Jean Marsh), sister of the ambitious Octavian (Roddy McDowall). The marriage satisfies no one. Cleopatra is infuriated, and Antony, tiring of his Roman wife, returns to Egypt. There he flaunts his liaison by marrying Cleopatra in a public ceremony. Sensing Antony's weakness, Octavian attacks and defeats his forces at Actium. Alarmed, Cleopatra withdraws her fleet and seeks refuge in her tomb.

As know as:

Cléopâtre, 클레오파트라, Kleopátra, クレオパトラ(1963), Клеопатра

Release Date:

Jun 12, 1963

Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 07, 2006

Countries:

Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Language:

English

Stream Service:

20th Century Fox

Production Companies:

Twentieth Century Fox, MCL Films S.A., Walwa Films S.A.

Gross worldwide:

$57,777,778

Taglines:

The motion picture the world has been waiting for!

Reviews

Penelope Houston
Sight & Sound
As the sets seem to grow bigger and bigger, so progressively the players dwindle.
by rottentomatoes, Feb 11, 2020
Richard Brody
New Yorker
Taylor inhabits the role with a focussed but uninhibited imperiousness, as when she turns Cleopatra's entrance into Rome, aboard a giant rolling sphinx, into the ultimate red-carpet photo op.
by rottentomatoes, Oct 06, 2014
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
A stately but sometimes mindboggling spectacle.
by rottentomatoes, Jul 11, 2013

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