Open-air cinema: Gladiator II

Screening of the film Gladiator II at the summer cinema at the western entrance to the Černý Most Center.

Lucius (Paul Mescal), the grandson of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the son of the "first" gladiator Maximus, lives in hiding in one of the last free cities in North Africa. However, the expanding Roman Empire will not leave him alone. One massive attack by a fleet led by General Acacius (Pedro Pascal) is enough to turn the thriving city into ruins and free Lucius into an unnamed slave. The burly captive catches the eye of the gladiatorial match organizer Macrinus (Denzel Washington), who wants to make him a star of the Roman Colosseum (before he is replaced by someone more capable). However, the gladiatorial games are not the main game that Macrinus is playing. The cunning strategist realizes the weakness of the empire ruled by two mad emperors, Caracalla and Geta, and plays a risky game in which the gladiator and the rightful heir to the Roman throne, Lucius, his mother Lucilla (Connie Nielsen, reprising her role from the first film), and General Acacius, her husband and also the man whom her son hates to death for ruining his life, are all fighting on the metaphorical chessboard. A clash is approaching, in which blood will flow not only through the Colosseum but also through the streets of Rome.