Title: Cleopatra
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Release Date: 31 July 1963 (UK)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Ranald MacDougall
Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison
Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova
Kenneth Haigh, Andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall
Robert Stephens, Francesca Annis, Grégoire Aslan

Plot:
In 48 B.C., Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Ptolemy, now supreme 
ruler after deposing his older sister, Cleopatra, attempts to gain favor with 
Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey, borne by his 
governors, Pothinos and Achillas. To win Caesar's support from her brother, 
Cleopatra hides herself in a rug, which Apollodorus, 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, 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, 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, sister of the ambitious Octavian. 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.

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