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Oct 28, 2023 · Seneca ended up dying in a hot bath (to facilitate the circulation and draining of blood), surrounded by those close to him. His young wife, Paulina, who had decided to commit suicide with her husband, had her life saved and the veins in her arms stitched.
Seneca returns and stands by Nero for several years, exerting a great influence on him, even after he becomes emperor. In 65 AD, Nero struggles to defend his tyrannical claim to sovereignty. Seneca, accused of being part of a conspiracy against Nero, is ordered to kill himself.
Jun 24, 2024 · The dubiously arthouse black comedy Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes, a German production helmed by Robert Schwentke, represents the latest film in which John Malkovich gets to yell obscenities at people. It’s a quixotic postmodern farce masquerading as a period drama.
Feb 20, 2023 · But he disappears fairly early when Seneca repairs to his country estate, where he holds court with his younger wife (Lilith Stangenberg) and a bunch of aristocratic toadies.
Feb 20, 2023 · Shot in and around an open colonnaded pavilion constructed in the Moroccan desert, Seneca draws on Roman historian Tacitus’ account of the great thinker’s reluctant suicide in AD 65.
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Feb 20, 2023 · The film mostly unfolds over the final hours of the senator’s life, when a hellish am-dram cocktail party at his estate (the film is shot in striking desert locations in Ouarzazate and Essaouira,...
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While throwing a decadent party at his farmhouse, Seneca receives his surprising death sentence of Emperor Nero, delivered by a messenger. He must be dead by morning.
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