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The Voyage Home (2003)

The Voyage Home poster
Original title
De Reditu (Il ritorno)
Directed by
Claudio Bondì
Genre
drama film, adventure film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A nobleman travels by boat from Rome to his homeland in Gaul five years after the sack of the city. The film follows his journey across a changing landscape.

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What happens

The Voyage Home (Latin: De reditu; Italian: Il ritorno, lit. 'The Return') is a 2004 Italian historical drama film directed by Claudio Bondì and starring Elia Schilton. It tells the story of a nobleman who travels from Rome by boat to his native Gaul five years after the sack of Rome. It is loosely based on the 5th-century poem De reditu suo by Rutilius Claudius Namatianus. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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