Germanikus

Name: Germanikus
Director: Hanns Christian Müller
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2004
Duration: 86 min
Cast: Gerhard Polt, Gisela Schneeberger, Rufus Beck, Aïssatou Thiam, Anke Engelke

20041h 26mdir. Hanns Christian Müllerscreenplay Hanns Christian Müllerscreenplay Hans Weth

3.9TMDb

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Overview

The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda. He manages to escape, but only to end up in the next misery as a taster at the imperial court. When the emperor dies, he is arrested as an emperor's assassin and is to be thrown to the tigers in the arena.With the help of the black slave Saba, he manages to win the deadly fight and is proclaimed - against his will - the new emperor of the Roman Empire.His pragmatic ideas as a statesman explain why the Roman Empire ended so abruptly. At the side of Saba, who is elevated to empress, he returns to his home village of Sumpfing, where he now promises himself completely new perspectives ...

Cast

Gerhard Polt Gisela Schneeberger Rufus Beck Aïssatou Thiam Anke Engelke Bernhard Hoëcker

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