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00:00And
00:26They say I sprang from a carpet and stood naked as Venus
00:29before caesar the most powerful man in the world in rome they called me the royal whore
00:36yeah i really have shared a bed with two emperors i needed one of them i loved the other
00:45but the third wanted to conquer my country violently but he wouldn't get me
00:59i was the queen of egypt in uncertain times my brother disputed the throne and
01:26had expelled me from alexandria julius caesar landed there with his navy
01:34he wanted influence in egypt for rome
01:42surrounded by poor advisors my brother was not only fighting against me but also against the romans
01:48my life was in danger
01:54i needed an ally against my brother and only caesar was powerful enough
02:00i had to go to him no matter what the cost would be stop what have you got there for the cook figs and
02:08dates the first grapes and what are you carrying it's the new bedding for caesar silk
02:16okay good go on in
02:20i had to smuggle myself into my own palace where caesar had accommodated himself
02:25he wanted to negotiate with me and my brother
02:27if i were quicker than my brother then perhaps i could win over the roman
02:39and how to win over the most powerful man in the world by any means
03:09i could win over the most powerful man in the world by any means
03:12go now
03:17everything depended on this moment
03:20my fate lay in his hands
03:23the navy's blocking the port
03:25this moment would decide everything
03:28he who collected countries and women like trophies is whom i had to win over
03:45greetings caesar
03:47what do you want
03:49your soldiers aren't safe in the streets
03:51my brother will declare war on you
03:58do you want to leave alexandria alive or dead
04:02my legions are on their way
04:04and you think they will arrive in time to get you out
04:08did you come here just to ask me that
04:12we have an agreement or have you forgotten that my father paid you a fortune so that rome would protect
04:16us and the senate has recognized me as queen do you get that your father is dead
04:24and you are powerless
04:27well i am still queen and i have egypt behind me but not alexandria
04:36i have gathered an army it is on its way here we should fight together or else
04:41or else what don't you understand what is happening outside they'll cut off your head and all of your
04:51enemies in the senate they will rejoice
04:59you should consider about my offer
05:00we will see
05:09caesar was right both his navy and his legions arrived on time and quelled the uprising against rome
05:23do you like my alexandria
05:25yeah but now it's my alexandria do you really think the roman senate will just give up egypt so
05:33that you become more powerful i'm the victor
05:41and you are my spoils
05:45i am nobody's spoils
05:53what about my alliance with rome
05:57perhaps we should renew the friendship
06:04his legionaries are calling all over rome he's every woman's man no woman is safe from him
06:12and i heard he's even taking the men to bed
06:14he came he saw he conquered
06:24no he didn't but i came i saw i conquered
06:28the pact has been sealed egypt will not be a province of rome
06:32and we will remain free what more do you want
06:35but will it stay like that
06:40how do you want to be attached to him
06:44i heard that his wife is infertile he has no heirs
06:54i was heir to a three-thousand-year-old culture
07:09rome envied us
07:11and caesar needed the fertile land on the nile as a granary
07:16to keep the romans and good spirits with gifts of grain and to feed his legionaries
07:23who if not me could guarantee him that
07:26and one of the olive oil from karnak
07:34five hundred amphorae are on their way
07:37there is also fifty balls of linen from thebes
07:42thousand swords and spears from heliopolis
07:45and two hundred tails of gold from nubia
07:48three hundred we need three hundred tails
07:50and how many bushels of wheat are we giving caesar's legions
07:58two hundred thousand four hundred thousand
08:02but my noble queen the harvests were bad the farmers are starving
08:08if we want peace with caesar then we must supply it
08:11or do you want some roman tax collector in our land
08:13i was expecting our child my first baby and my security for the future
08:24but what did it mean for him for us for rome
08:34caesar had power and he had powerful opponents
08:37they were just waiting for him to make a mistake
08:43here
08:51for you my king
09:05in rome kings aren't popular in fact they're put to death
09:08kings are what have made egypt great
09:10there are simply too many gibbering idiots in rome
09:14who still believe that we live in a republic
09:17then i don't understand why you hesitate
09:27at last he took us to rome into the lion's den
09:32many revered him like a king but in the senate they hated and feared him
09:40we lived in one of his villas on the other side of the tiber
09:45and not in his house because caesar was married after all
09:50but everyone knew that i was his lover
09:53and that ptolemy caesar was his son
10:06what a scandal they called me the royal whore of the nile
10:10and our son a bastard
10:25but nevertheless we were the attraction
10:28if i invited them to caesar's villa they all came
10:32the royal whore of rome's high society
10:37oh
10:37hey
10:38i mean she's got an engaging personality there's simply no denying that
10:51and she certainly has other talents
10:54he's 54 years old and she's 23
10:58but we all know that's how men are after all
11:03she's coming
11:04what i didn't know was what these roman geese were gaggling about behind my back
11:21do you think he wants to be king and stand at her side in alexandria
11:26king of alexandria you say in rome
11:29oh
11:31caesar should be quite careful
11:33yeah
11:34it's not only cicero that suspects that he wants to destroy the republic
11:41ah cicero it warms my heart that you have accepted my invitation
11:47i'm honored to be in your presence my queen
11:50if i am not mistaken didn't you just announce that the senate must tear king's limb from limb
11:54is that the elder's custom
11:56with respect we are romans we are not persians nor are we greeks
12:02we are free citizens my queen you see for us autocracy is tyranny a lack of freedom and we
12:08could just never accept it but we respect the kings of the east that is if they keep the peace with
12:14our republic and above all we respect you my queen but what is so bad about having a king
12:21hmm how long has your republic been ripped apart by
12:26costly civil war
12:28still you lead the people to ruin and war
12:31you all deserve a man who fosters peace and unity a man such as alexander the great
12:38but sometime i would like to read your writing on the republic
12:46cicero a snake in the grass who secretly fanned the hatred against us
12:53how are your wife and daughters senator
12:55nice hairstyle is that the fashion in rome
13:01cesar didn't show his face in that snake pit he didn't want to pour more oil on the fire
13:13but it was no use
13:16cicero was right
13:18cicero is a tyrant and cleopatra a danger to the republic
13:30we must eliminate him before it's too late
13:35everyone agrees
13:40do we know where it'll be done
13:41there where he commits his crimes against the republic
13:49in the senate
14:00and then on the ides of march they ambushed him in the senate and treacherously stabbed him to death
14:06he had become too powerful for those cowardly murderers
14:12but he also had friends who bid him farewell
14:22why had he gone to the senate why had he thrown all caution to the wind
14:28why did he jeopardize all of our plans our hopes our entire future
14:41why had he beaten him to death
14:45mama i can't sleep i'm scared
14:51come here sweetheart
14:52caesar's closest friend
15:05antony and antony spoke from the heart
15:09caesar the father of the fatherland this hero is dead
15:13he conquered the gauls and he defeated the teutons
15:19our ships didn't just travel on the rhone and the mosul but to the rhine river as well
15:25lands whose names we didn't know places we didn't know existed he conquered all of them
15:29when he appeared before the enemy and pontus he came he saw and he conquered in a single day
15:36he united with egypt and brought you all a lot of money from there
15:39he was not there as you like to think for his own pleasure
15:44now he is dead not from illness not from age
15:49caesar didn't fall in battle he was murdered here in the middle of rome
15:55we should leave rome civil war is coming
16:02struck down by daggers you lie here where you often spoke to the people
16:09woe over your blood spattered hair your shredded toga
16:16by your weak and wretched enemies you were murdered
16:18down with caesar's murderers
16:33even after his death caesar divided the romans his supporters and enemies attacked each other
16:42we were no longer safe we had to go back to our home in egypt
16:49there she is rick this way
16:58our fate now lay in the hands of the future rulers of rome
17:02on caesar's nephew octavian
17:06i will hunt down his murderers and avenge him
17:13they are powerful men wouldn't it be smarter if we work together
17:17and on mark antony caesar's colleague in the consulate
17:23you mean we march separately and win together
17:28and we'll split the empire
17:29i get the west including italy you get greece
17:38asia
17:42and egypt
17:43here's where the border will be
17:50and you'll give me 30 000 legionnaires
17:5530 000
17:58impossible
17:59i can't get more than 20 000 in italy if i need the navy you will send it to me
18:08when you need it it'll come to you
18:11but shake on it then
18:18egypt and rome had to find a new suitable arrangement
18:21how would antony approach me would he try to conquer me or attempt to overthrow me
18:32or would he recognize me as caesar did as queen of egypt
18:43antony wanted to know who he was dealing with
18:51he summoned me to him several times but i made him wait
18:55all the kings of the east have paid homage to me not to mention the queens as well
19:03she's the only one who has it
19:06and now you're going to go to her
19:07she'll get to know who i am
19:24i think i should lose some weight
19:28what do we know about him he's married and his wife does everything for him she sends him soldiers
19:34and equipment and she even leads campaigns for him now that's what i call love he's supposed to be
19:41uneducated a philistine supposed to be he is one he loves coarse jokes and hanging around all the
19:50worst drinking holes his people don't know him as a general
19:57i've been told he goes to libraries and listens to philosophers
20:00listens perhaps but understands and besides he's a drunk and a womanizer he he will devour you
20:12he's celebrated as the new dionysus a few queens have already lain in his bed
20:18don't break your head over this let's get ready
20:30she just used caesar
20:37don't forget that she led him to his doom be careful
20:40then we will finally see whether i measure up to a queen
21:00at last he came to me i prepared a reception fit for a king for him
21:10so
21:22so
21:24so
21:30so
21:38I appeared before him as Isis, as the goddess of love, as was the custom in Egypt.
22:08I...
22:13Shh.
22:15Be aware.
22:18Just enjoy it.
22:38Oh, my God.
22:53Oh, my God.
22:58Oh, my God.
23:03Oh, my God.
23:13With Caesar, I wanted to save my life and my crown.
23:16With Antony, I fell in love.
23:21For him, I would give everything.
23:33For three long years, we didn't see each other.
23:42He had to go and fight with his legions in the east of the kingdom, and defend his power in Rome.
23:54But we had something in common together.
23:57I had carried twins below my heart.
24:00Alexander Helios, my son.
24:03And Cleopatra Selina, my moon.
24:08When I heard that his wife had died, I had hopes.
24:13I'm sorry, Highness.
24:18He has remarried.
24:22He's married his rival Octavian's sister, Octavia.
24:28Out!
24:30Leave me be!
24:32Anthony!
24:33Anthony!
24:34Yes!
24:47Anthony!
24:48Anthony!
24:49Anthony!
24:50Yeah!
24:51Anthony!
24:52Yes!
24:53Yes!
24:54Well, Anthony hadn't married me.
24:57He simply couldn't leave me, nor could he leave Egypt.
25:08He needed us for his plans, and he loved our culture, our way of living, our freedoms.
25:23All right, Anthony!
25:25And only I could give him such a grand reception.
25:41He returned as a victorious general. To me, to Alexandria.
25:46Where are we right now? What kind of men are leading us? Men who simply squander their spoils on Oriental sluts?
26:00I'm not surprised he grovels before her. After all, she finances his wars. Who knows whether he would have won without her.
26:10And now, he prefers to celebrate his victory in Alexandria instead of in Rome. The Senate will be in an uproar.
26:20And the Romans, too.
26:30Just look at them. He'll give parts of the Empire to his bastard children.
26:34Hmph. Our general. Next to the Queen of Kings.
26:39Next to her? I say under.
26:42He acts as if he were a god on Earth. He's not a Roman anymore.
26:46He's not a Roman anymore.
26:48In the end, he will make Alexandria the capital of the Empire.
26:55Octavian. He must put an end to this.
26:58Do you love her?
27:14You are the one that I love.
27:18Then prove it.
27:20I have already acknowledged our children.
27:22That's not enough for me.
27:24I want you to divorce Octavia.
27:31You know I can't do that.
27:34You can't or you don't want to.
27:37Try to understand. Did Caesar get divorced for you?
27:39I didn't ask him, but I'm asking you.
27:42She's a Roman.
27:43Roman? So what?
27:48Don't you get it? She's Octavian's sister and the seal of our alliance.
27:51He's just waiting for me to break it.
27:54You're such a coward.
27:57A divorce would mean all-out war.
27:59Against you two!
28:00Do you want that?
28:04No. I didn't want war.
28:10But then what I had always feared happened.
28:12The rivalry between Octavian and Antony turned to open hostility.
28:18That is betrayal.
28:21You promised me a fleet.
28:23And what do you send me for the war against the Parthians?
28:26A few ridiculous ships.
28:28There are common enemies.
28:31You promised me 20,000 Legionnaires.
28:33Remember that?
28:34And then you send me barely 2,000?
28:40I couldn't get any more than that, my dear Antony.
28:45No Roman will serve that Egyptian whore.
28:52I meant to say Queen, of course.
28:54What has changed you so much, Octavian?
28:57Are you jealous that I'm sleeping with a queen?
29:00I gave you my sister to take as your wife.
29:02And you and that slut Cleopatra betray her.
29:04Don't you have any lovers?
29:06You just sleep with Livia?
29:08Surely you have been in Lutia, or Anna, or Valeria, or maybe even all three of them.
29:14But isn't it important which woman that you're in love with?
29:18And even so, they're Roman.
29:20You're not Egyptian sluts.
29:23What did Cleopatra say when she appeared before you dressed as Venus?
29:27Either we...
29:29Or there'll be war?
29:31We divided the empire between us.
29:34But then you go ahead and sell off the entire East?
29:37You're making Romans into submissive eunuchs of a... of a woman!
29:40And you... you're making yourself a slave to a whore!
29:46Shall I write that?
29:51Word for word.
30:10Nothing. Octavian left absolutely nothing out.
30:23He even took love to the battlefield, and dragged it through the mud.
30:27But I won the first victory.
30:30Antony divorced Octavia and committed himself to me.
30:35For her brother, that was the moment to strike.
30:40Octavian wanted to destroy Antony.
30:43And... for me and Egypt?
30:46Conquest.
30:48Because the tribes of Egypt, and the people of Egypt...
30:51Have acted against the Roman people, and diplomacy has completely failed!
30:57Because the Roman people have commanded it!
31:01There will be war with the Egyptians!
31:05And the Senate was in agreement.
31:10And decided...
31:12On war!
31:14We'll wage war with the honorable Egyptians!
31:18That's why I hereby declare...
31:21With the Roman people...
31:22War on honorable Egypt, and the honorable people of Egypt!
31:32The war...
31:34Begins right now!
31:37Begins right now!
31:50The battle commenced in Actium on Grecian waters.
31:59Octavian had trapped our navy, and cut off supplies to our army.
32:07Octavian is playing for time.
32:09He doesn't want to fight the battle.
32:12We have to do something.
32:14Our soldiers are in desperate need.
32:16They are starving. Half of them have fallen ill.
32:19Every day, troops are defecting to him.
32:21We can't keep this up much longer.
32:24In a word...
32:26We're trapped.
32:27There is always a way out.
32:37I wouldn't say so.
32:40It must also be said that it's not only bad in Rome that we have a woman among the generals.
32:46We're trapped.
32:47We're trapped.
32:48We're trapped.
32:50All right.
32:52You withdraw over land.
32:54To Athens.
32:56And we'll regroup there.
32:58And the naval forces, including my ships for that matter, do you want to burn them in the port?
33:03There are no better ships on the high seas than the Egyptian ones.
33:08You and all of your oriental followers have been holding us back long enough.
33:12That's enough!
33:14At sea, we have no chance against Octavian.
33:17Not if we put our navies together.
33:20We combine our naval forces.
33:23We'll ram anything that gets in our way.
33:26And then we break through.
33:30We can't break through.
33:36They'll encircle us and then board us.
33:39Have your scouts asked the fishermen about the current?
33:40Mine have.
33:42Octavian can't keep his formation on the open sea.
33:45With the wind at our backs, we can do it.
33:47That's exactly what a woman would do, but not our legionaries.
33:50In Rome, they'll say we fled like cowards.
33:53The decision must be made honorably on the battlefield.
33:56You can have honor carved on your tombstone. This is about more than that, you idiot!
34:00Do not listen to her!
34:01Are you fighting for Rome? Or for this woman? Has she put you on a chain yet?
34:10You aren't just making a mockery of yourself, but of us as well.
34:14Quiet!
34:15It is simply the better plan. We break through.
34:28And so the battle took its course as I had predicted.
34:31And when the wind picked up, we set sail and reached the open sea.
34:40They have broken through. With several legions, and also taken the war chest.
34:54So you have failed? And now she has escaped us?
35:05What about Antony?
35:07His ship has been boarded.
35:11But he's escaped together with Cleopatra.
35:16Don't you get it?
35:18They didn't just escape.
35:20They have saved everything!
35:22Yeah, but he lost a few legions.
35:25And that drunk weakling won't keep it up for much longer.
35:29Enough of this!
35:32That snake of a queen is more dangerous than he is.
35:34Announce in Rome that we have won.
35:47We sailed our glorious fleet back to Alexandria.
35:52Thinking that we were safe.
35:53We were intoxicated with our success.
35:55And we celebrated our rebirth.
35:56We were intoxicated with our success.
35:57And we celebrated our rebirth.
35:58We sailed our glorious fleet back to Alexandria, thinking that we were safe.
36:13We were intoxicated with our success, and we celebrated our rebirth.
36:28It felt as if the carefree times of years past had returned to us.
36:58Every legions. All of your legions.
37:14What about them?
37:16They have all defected to Octavian. They think he's the victor.
37:28What about them?
37:33AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
37:58What are you thinking?
38:11I had never seen him like that.
38:13As if he had lost everything.
38:23Just tell me.
38:28Talk to me.
38:43I'm finished.
38:49Mark Antony doesn't capitulate.
38:52Octavian will humiliate you.
38:53He will take your honor, your children, us.
38:56Do something.
38:58I will challenge him to a duel.
39:19It was pure desperation.
39:21Antony wanted to fight for his honor.
39:38But why would Octavian face such a brave and fearless fighter in a one-on-one duel?
39:42When?
39:54He says no, there won't be a duel, and...
39:57And what?
39:58He says there are many routes to death open to you.
40:01There was no hope left.
40:10Octavian wanted Antony dead.
40:20What is it?
40:22And afterwards, perhaps he would show mercy, and at least let the children live.
40:34I had to act.
40:38Apollodorus.
40:39Go to Antony.
40:47Tell him.
40:50Tell him.
40:52There's no hope left for us.
40:54Tell him I have ended my life.
40:57He will throw himself on his sword.
41:00Octavian wants him alive.
41:02At least this way he can save his dignity.
41:05Tell him that I did it out of love for him.
41:06I will wait for him in the afterlife.
41:14Go on now.
41:15Leave me alone.
41:17Octavian is a ruthless monster.
41:19Do you think that you will get anything from him if Antony is dead?
41:22No.
41:36Cleopatra has ended her life.
41:43She says you will see each other again.
41:46In the afterlife.
41:47ly
42:00l
42:01l
42:01Or
42:02l
42:04l
42:04l
42:05l
42:06News
42:06l
42:08l
42:09l
42:09No!
42:10No!
42:11No!
42:12No!
42:13No!
42:14No!
42:40We had sworn to live with dignity.
42:47And to die with dignity.
43:10Have you finished the list?
43:14She says the Golden Dendera isn't hers, but the Temple of Horus is.
43:19And Octavian?
43:21He did as he always did.
43:24He had the face of a child, and yet he was cold and ruthless.
43:29Give me the state treasure, and I will see what I can do for you.
43:34Caesar ensured that I was a friend and ally of Rome, always.
43:37You are his heir, right? And Caesarion is his biological son.
43:41Do you have that in writing?
43:48You forget that we are at war with one another.
43:51One which I didn't start.
43:53You will return to Rome.
43:54As queen or as your spoils?
43:57As Cleopatra.
44:08And my children?
44:11I hear that Caesarion is out of the country.
44:16I will find him.
44:17I will find him.
44:32My love, my lord who went to the land of silence.
44:48I will follow you.
44:57In peace.
45:17I will find him.
45:18Olympus, do you have it?
45:46It is.
45:48Worthy of a queen and a goddess.
45:52Here?
45:57Place it in the crook of your arm, in the vein.
46:03Will it be quick? A few seconds?
46:07It can take quite a long time.
46:10One bite is extremely painful.
46:12One, two, one.
46:35I'm not afraid of pain.
46:45What we don't have is time.
46:48Octavian wants to lead me through Roman chains,
46:50but I won't grace his victory parade.
46:57It must work quick, Olympus.
47:00Do it the Philosopher's way,
47:02with a cup of hemlock.
47:04Wolf's pain and a little bit of opium
47:07to relieve the pain.
47:13Announce everywhere,
47:15Cleopatra has entered the abyss,
47:17that a cobra has bitten her and taken her life,
47:20a death worthy of her highness, the queen of Egypt.
47:25Octavian may conquer Egypt,
47:28but
47:30he will not conquer me.
47:42We'll meet again together with Osiris.
47:45We will live forever.
47:47I'll see you next time.
48:06the
48:06talking
48:06to me.
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