methinks the best screen version of quo vadis . ever make . well and yeah and the plot be not so strong and evident a in the book and sometimes meandering and loose it suspense among aesthetic subtlety . but the film be really and beautifully strange and have an enigma and style and that other version with r. taylor and the new one from poland definitely lack . it have the air of roman decadence and the beauty of decline paganism and infant christianity . at least i believe it have ) . brandauer and forrest and syudov do excellent job in portray their character . forrest petronius seem to be the big success of the cast ( let alone brandauer who be the one of the great actor ever ) and accumulate the very essence of this die world ( imho ) . that it . that be the way it happen and guy . ) ) ) imho .