Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;' but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. 'It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,' but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery. 'Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,' but I tell you, don't swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black. But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one. 'You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'* But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you. 'You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor,* and hate your enemy.*' But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven.

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	Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

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Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

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Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

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Director - Chrstian Duguay

Writers - Francesco Arlanch

Production Company - EOS Entertainment, Grupa Filmowa, Lux Vide, Rai Fiction, Rai Trade, Tellux Film

Runtime: 200 min.

Release Date: 2010, January 31

Film Synopsis:

In 430 AD, in the besieged city of Hippo, the seventy year-old bishop Augustine tells Jovinus, a captain of the Roman guards, the story of how his Christian mother, Monica, saved him. Born in the North African city of Thagaste, Augustine studied in Carthage, becoming an accomplished but dissolute orator. After converting to Manichaeism, a guiltfree religion, he was called to the imperial court in Milan to serve as an opponent to the Christian bishop Ambrose. But when the Empress Justina ends imperial guards to clear out a basilica where Augustine’s own mother is worshipping, he is won over to Christianity.

Back in Hippo, Augustine urges the Roman garrison to negotiate with the Vandal King Genseric, but they proudly refuse. At that point, he too, passing up a chance to escape on a ship sent to rescue him by the Pope, stays by the side of his people.

Actors:

Alessandro Preziosi - Augustinus (age 25)
Monica Guerritore - Monica
Gerald Alexander Held - Valerius (age 75)
Johannes Brandrup - Valerius (age 25)
Wenanty Nosul - Possidius
Katy Louise Saunders - Lucilla
Serena Rossi - Khalida
Sebastian Ströbel - Centurio Fabius Domicius
Dietrich Hollinderbäumer - Macrobius
Aglaia Szyszkowitz - Paola
Götz Otto - Geiserich
Franco Nero - Augustinus (age 76)
Vincenzo Alfieri - Fulvius
Sonia Aquino - Blesilla
Dominic Atherton - Valentianus II
Alessandro Borghi - Camillus
Francesca Cavallin - Iustina
Valerio Colangelo - Roman Officer
Cosimo Fusco - Patricius
Diego Laurenti Sellers - Ennius
Lech Mackiewicz - Ammonius
Adrian Moore - Fabius (age 08)
Jannis Niewöhner - Valerius (age 16)
Krzysztof Pieczynski - Ilarius
Matteo Urzia - Augustinus (age 15)
Jerzy Zelnik - Sidonius
Cesare Bocci - Romanianus
Andrea Giordana - Ambrosius

Source: http://www.christianfilmdatabase.com/

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