Asterix is a French comic album series about a Gaulish village which resists the forces of Julius Caesar's Roman Republic Army in a nonhistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars. The series follows the adventures of a village of Gauls as they resist Roman occupation in 50 BC. As of 20 April 2022, 385 million copies of Asterix books had been sold worldwide and translated in 111 languages. The success of the series has led to the adaptation of its books into 15 films: ten animated, and five live action.