The new version of Tinto Brass's' Caligula ': less pornography, more politics

The film begins with a prologue set in Rome in the year 37 of our era. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) awakens embracing his younger sister, Drusila (Teresa Ann Savoy). He has just dreamt that his grandfather, Emperor Tiberius (Peter O'Toole), wants to kill him, as he killed a large part of his family in his day. In just a couple of shots, McDowell traces the main lines of his construction of …