Kampf um Rom

The Last Roman is a West German-Italian-Romanian historical drama film starring Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina and Honor Blackman. It was produced by Artur Brauner and was the last film to be directed by Robert Siodmak. It was originally released in two parts in 1968 and 1969 as a late installment of the sword-and-sandal genre. The Last Roman shows the 6th-century power struggle between Byzantine emperor Justinian, the descendants of the Western Roman Empire and the Ostrogoths. The film is based on the novel A Struggle for Rome by Felix Dahn.