 In 2006 , Lundgren played gladiator Brixos in the Italian @-@ made historical / biblical drama , The Inquiry ( L 'inchiesta ) , also known as The Final Inquiry , alongside Daniele Liotti , Mónica Cruz , Max von Sydow , F. Murray Abraham and Ornella Muti . It is the remake of the 1986 Italian film directed by Damiano Damiani and starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel . Set in AD 35 in the Roman Empire , the story follows a fictional Roman general named Titus Valerius Taurus , a veteran of campaigns in Germania , who is sent to Judea by the emperor Tiberius to investigate the possibility of the divinity of the recently crucified Jesus . The film , shot on location in Tunisia and Bulgaria , featured a score from Andrea Morricone , the son of the acclaimed film score composer Ennio Morricone . It premiered at the Capri @-@ Hollywood and the Los Angeles @-@ Italia Film Festival . One reviewer on a website catering for historical movies said of the film , " The Final Inquiry is one of those movies you are glad you ran into .... I had such low expectations for this movie , but was glad to have been proven wrong . I know about the negative reviews this movie has gotten and some of the criticism is well deserved while some of it is a bit unfair . " 
