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KATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA

By Michael REDWOOD

VMI WORLDWIDE - as SALES All rights, World

Historical - Completed 2013

Katherine of Alexandria was just 11 years old when the Emperor of Rome, Maxentius, abducted her and killed her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, and never lost hope of finding Katherine.

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Historical, Epic
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 10 - 25 M$
- Duration
- 107 mn
- Director(s)
- Michael REDWOOD
- Writer(s)
- Michael REDWOOD
- Cast
- Nicole KENIHEART, Peter O'TOOLE, Joss ACKLAND, Edward FOX, Steven BERKOFF, Jack GODDARD
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-CE11-0000-P-0000-0000-0
- EIDR
- 10.5240/D933-4776-3EB5-1AB3-B46E-O
- Producer(s)
- Michael REDWOOD
- Synopsis
- Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.