Henryk Sienkiewicz

Marcus Vinicius encontra Lygia em Roma e se apaixona. Mas ela é cristã e não quer nada com ele. Marcus decide seqüestrá-la, mas Ursus, seu guarda-costas, captura Marcus. Depois disso, Lygia se apaixona, mas Marcus deve ir encontrar-se com o Imperador Nero. Após a reunião, alguém diz a Marcus que Nero queimou Roma. Marcus decide voltar a Roma e procurar por Lygia.

In Desert and Wilderness is a 2001 Polish film directed by Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two kids, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan.

A Polish soldier settles on a small island, where he operates a lighthouse. Absorbed by reading, he does not fulfill his duties.

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.

Fourteen year old Polish boy Stas Tarkowski and eight year old Nel Rawlison from England are kidnapped as the hostages by Arabic fanatics and taken to their religion leader. Then they manage to escape and try to return to their fathers. Children have a lot of dangerous adventures, meet two Black kids; Kali and Mea, who also help them, make a friendship with an elephant and help one Black's tribe.

The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.

Set in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the film concerns the star-crossed romance between a Polish military officer and a gorgeous Slavic princess. The princess' vengeful lover cuts a path of death and destruction throughout the land.

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.

Após três anos em campanha, o general Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) retorna à Roma e encontra Lygia (Deborah Kerr), por quem se apaixona. Ela é uma cristã e não quer nenhum envolvimento com um guerreiro. Mas, apesar de ter sido criada como romana, Lygia é a filha adotiva de um general aposentado e, teoricamente, uma refém de Roma. Marcus procura o imperador Nero (Peter Ustinov), para que ela lhe seja dada pelos serviços que ele fez. Lygia se ressente, mas de alguma forma se apaixona por Marcus. Enquanto isso, as atrocidades de Nero são cada vez mais ultrajantes e, quando ele queima Roma e culpa os cristãos, Marcus salva Lygia e a família dela. Nero captura todos os cristãos e os atira aos leões mas, no final, Marcus, Lygia e o cristianismo prevalecerão. Na filmagem da obra de Sienkiewicz, foram utilizados cerca de 32 mil figurinos e milhares de figurantes, dentre eles então os 'desconhecidos' Bud Spencer, Sophia Loren (então com 17 anos) e Elizabeth Taylor.

A talented violin-playing country boy struggles to get acceptance for his love for music.

"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- Re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced", reads an ad in the Daily Argus of New York. Unione Cinematografica Italiana's lavish production of the oft-told tale stars Emil Jannings as Nero.

During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young Christian hostage named Lygia. "Quo Vadis?" is a landmark in epic film-- Certainly Enrico Guazzoni’s grand-scale masterpiece laid the foundations for what colossal Italian spectacles would become. The film had tremendous influence on Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria (1914) and D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).