Italian Film Festival 2019 (Golden Village)
The First King (Il primo Re)
Language
Italian with English subtitles
Cast
Alessandro Borghi, Alessio Lapice, Fabrizio Rongione, Massimiliano Rossi, Tania Garribba
Synopsis
Romulus and Remus are 18-year-old shepherds, twin brothers living in peace near the Tiber river. Convinced that he is bigger than the will of the godsl, Remus believes he is meant to become king of the city he and his brother will found. But their tragic destiny is already written... This incredible journey will lead these two brothers to create one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen, Rome. The epic film that reconstructs the legend of Romulus and Remus is a nine-million-euro Italian-Belgian coproduction. “I’m shooting in pre-Roman Latin (language) because it will bring the audience inside something real and unique that happened centuries before the Roman Empire… I want to demonstrate that the Italian industry is capable of excellent results compared to international standards in prosthetics, stunts, special effects, fights and costumes. Everything was created in Italy.”(Matteo Rovere)