Jesus of Nazareth (Franco Zeffirelli - 1977)

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Jesus of Nazareth

AKAs: "Gesù di Nazareth" : Italy



Year: 1977
Runtime: 180 min (2 episodes) | Italy:237 min (2 parts) (theatrical minutes
IMDB Rating: 8.6
Film Language(s):
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic,
English
Film Country(s):
Italy,
UK
Main Genre: Biography
Other Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History
Filmed in:
Color
Sound:
Stereo

Director(s): Franco Zeffirelli

Writer(s): Anthony Burgess (written by) & Suso Cecchi d'Amico (written by) & Franco Zeffirelli (written by)David Butler (additional dialogue)
Producer(s): Tarak Ben Ammar deputy producer: Tunisia (as Tarak ben Ammar)
Lew Grade executive producer (as Sir Lew Grade)
Bernard J. Kingham executive producer
Vincenzo Labella producer
Dyson Lovell associate producer

Composer(s): Maurice Jarre

Cast:
Robert Powell - Jesus Christ
Anne Bancroft - Mary Magdalene
Ernest Borgnine - The Centurion
Claudia Cardinale - The Adulteress
Valentina Cortese - Herodias
James Farentino - Simon Peter
James Earl Jones - Balthazar
Stacy Keach - Barabbas
Tony Lo Bianco - Quintilius
James Mason - Joseph of Arimathea
Ian McShane - Judas Iscariot
Laurence Olivier - Nicodemus
Donald Pleasence - Melchior
Christopher Plummer - Herod Antipas
Anthony Quinn - Caiaphas
Fernando Rey - Gaspar
Ralph Richardson - Simeon
Rod Steiger - Pontius Pilate
Peter Ustinov - Herod the Great
Michael York - John the Baptist
Olivia Hussey - Virgin Mary
Cyril Cusack - Yehuda the Rabbi
Ian Holm - Zerah
Yorgo Voyagis - Joseph
Ian Bannen - Amos
Marina Berti - Elizabeth
Regina Bianchi - Anne
Maria Carta - Martha
Lee Montague - Habbukuk
Renato Rascel - The Blind Man
Oliver Tobias - Joel
Norman Bowler - Saturninus
Robert Beatty - Proculus
John Phillips - Naso
Ken Jones - Jotham
Nancy Nevinson - Abigail
Renato Terra - Abel
Roy Holder - Enoch
Jonathan Adams - Adam
Christopher Reich - Circumcision Priest / Metellus
Lorenzo Monet - Jesus at 12 yrs old
Michael Cronin - Eliphaz
Forbes Collins - Jonas
Tony Vogel - Andrew
Murray Salem - Simon the Zealot
Steve Gardner - Philip
John Duttine - John the Evangelist
Michael Haughey - Nahum
Keith Skinner - Obsessed Boy
Cyril Shaps - Obsessed Boy's Father
Jonathan Muller - James I
John Tordoff - Malachi
Keith Washington - Matthew
Sergio Nicolai - James II
Isabel Mestres - Salome
Renato Montalbano - Jairus
Bruce Lidington - Thomas
Derek Godfrey - Elihu
Mimmo Craig - Thaddeus (as Mimmo Crao)
John Eastham - Bartholomew
Robert Davey - Daniel
Oliver Smith - Saul
George Camiller - Hosias
Francis De Wolff - Simon the Pharisee
Antonello Campodifiori - Ircanus
Tim Pearce - Rufus
Paul Curran - Samuel
Mark Eden - Quartus
Bruno Barnabe - Ezra
Simon MacCorkindale - Lucius
Lionel Guyett - Haggai
Martin Benson - Pharisee
Peter Harlowe - Valerius
Carl Forgione - Plotinus
Donald Sumpter - Aram
Pino Colizzi - Jobab
Harold Bennett - Elder (uncredited)
Immad Cohen - Young Jesus (uncredited)
Andrew Manson - Zealot & Various (uncredited)

imdb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075520