He then catches up with and defeats Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus, who then flees to Egypt. Upon his return to Rome Caesar is made dictator. Pompey, Cato and Brutus immediately decide to leave to regroup their own troops in Greece. Caesar makes his way back to Rome and crosses the river Rubicon with his army. Pompey begins planning to attack Caesar before he can march to Rome, but is too late. Caesar sends Mark Antony to talk to the Senate, but this makes the situation worse. He allies with Cato to attack Caesar politically. Meanwhile, in Rome Julia dies in childbirth, and Pompey begins to turn against Caesar who he fears is becoming too powerful. Outnumbered and surrounded, Caesar's army nevertheless emerges victorious. However, later on, the same warrior chief summons a huge army to fight Caesar's legions at the Battle of Alesia. Admiring his strength of will, Caesar lets him go, giving him a horse. Caesar asks him why he is willing to die for something that will be destroyed no matter what, and the warrior replies "because it is mine". He tells Caesar his name is Vercingetorix. While sacking a town in Gaul, Caesar comes across a strong-willed warrior who refuses to give in to the Romans attacking his home. Before he goes to Gaul, Caesar marries Calpurnia and the two of them remain in contact through letters. Calpurnia tells Caesar that she knows about his "falling sickness" and he confesses that it shames him. In marrying her, he agrees to allow Caesar to take his legions to Gaul, despite the fact that the senate wished to send Cassius. Julia realizes that her father needs an alliance and offers to marry Pompey in order to obtain his legions. At Pompey's welcome home party, while Pompey gets on well with Julia, Caesar notices Calpurnia who he doesn't remember from their encounter before.Ĭaesar swears to his mother that he will make a name for himself. At the triumph, Caesar has another seizure but is aided by Calpurnia, daughter of a wealthy man in Rome. On the day of Pompey's triumph Julia, Portia and Marcus decide to go and Portia insists on dragging Brutus along with them. Several years later Pompey returns to Rome and Caesar has achieved the consulship. The senate send Pompey to deal with the problem after Caesar convinced them that he will not take the city with his army like Sulla did. Around this time the same pirates who held him captive cut off the grain supply. When Cornelia dies from her illness, Caesar swears at her funeral that he will make Rome a better place. While he was gone Cornelia became very ill and Julia befriended the young daughter of Caesar's rival Marcus Porcius Cato, Portia, her brother Marcus and their cousin Brutus. Back in Rome, Sulla dies of a heart-attack and Caesar is allowed to return home. Caesar bargains to fight one of them for an extra day and wins, then has a seizure and the pirates believe him worthless, deciding to throw him in the sea just in time the Roman boat returns with the money and they let Caesar go. When the Romans crew sent with the message of the ransom don't return, the pirates plan to kill him. Pompey buys a swine's heart from the market and tells Sulla that the heart is Caesar's.Ĭaesar is captured by pirates who intend to ransom him for money. Pompey follows Caesar and tells him to leave Rome, which he does. Sulla lets him go but orders Pompey to kill him and bring his heart to him. Caesar's mother, Aurelia, asks Sulla to show him mercy out of respect for her, he promises to let Caesar live if he divorces his wife, Cornelia but Caesar refuses. Pompey arrests him and takes him to Sulla. When he sees his father-in-law's name he rushes to his house to try to help him escape. The guards sent with the news post death lists on the senate door. He is out in the town with his daughter Julia (who in real history was not yet born) when news comes that Lucius Cornelius Sulla is just outside the city walls and intends to take the city with his army. The series begins in 82 BC when Julius Caesar is 18 years old. The miniseries was nominated for 2 Emmys for Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries, and Outstanding Sound Editing. The tagline for the miniseries was His Time Has Come. The series was originally broadcast on TNT in two parts, airing June 29 and 30, 2003. It was one of the last two films of Richard Harris, released in the year of his death. It is a dramatization of the life of Julius Caesar from 82 BC to his death in 44 BC. It was directed by Uli Edel and written by Peter Pruce and Craig Warner. Julius Caesar is a 2003 miniseries about the life of Julius Caesar. American TV series or program Julius Caesar
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