I admire Augustine of Hippo. So, I saw this film with many reserves and not small expectations. And it is just a decent historical film. The basic motif is the work of Monica Guerritore and Franco Nero. Sure, the story is simplistic - more at usum Delphini- but it works just well. A film about the agony of Roman Empire, about a life of pleasures becoming life for teach and leading . One of result of familiar recipe, decent but not more, giving opportunity to has first clue to discover a great personality of the late Antiquity.