Alec Guinness and Genevieve Bujold star in this highly acclaimed 1976 television adaptation of one of George Bernard Shaw's best-loved works. On campaign in Egypt, the aging Julius Ceaser (Alec Guinness) stumbles across the beautiful young and capricious Cleopatra (Genevieve Bujold) while pondering the riddle of the Sphinx.
Ceaser promises to turn the young girl into a true queen for Egypt and tutors her in the ways of power - but Rome's ways are not Egypt's ways. He quickly discovers that he may have conquered Egypt but can never hope to rule Cleopatra. Childish, impulsive, flirtatious, Cleopatra id her own woman - and a good deal more dangerous than Ceaser realises.....