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Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Overview
Passion, beauty, and brilliant storytelling are all on display in this six-hour-plus epic from Italian director Franco Zeffirelli. Robert Powell is superb in the title role, and with the overwhelming success of this TV movie throughout the world, has perhaps become what Jesus looks like in many people’s minds. The story begins with the arrangements of the wedding between Joseph and Mary, and chronicles the nativity, the encounter with John the Baptist (a ferocious Michael York) and everything up to the crucifixion and resurrection.
Length 371 minutes
Actors
Ian Holm | Robert Beatty | Christopher Plummer | Rod Steiger | Stacy Keach | James Mason | Ian Bannen | Laurence Olivier | Claudia Cardinale | Cyril Cusack | Anthony Quinn | Ian McShane | Ernest Borgnine | Donald Pleasence | Francis de Wolff | Martin Benson | Anne Bancroft | Ralph Richardson | Jonathan Adams | Michael York | Mark Eden | Peter Ustinov | Murray Salem | Fernando Rey | James Earl Jones | Tony Lo Bianco | Donald Sumpter | Valentina Cortese | Marina Berti | Robert Powell | James Farentino | Olivia Hussey | Yorgo Voyagis | Maria Carta | Regina Bianchi | Lee Montague | Renato Rascel | Oliver Tobias | Norman Bowler | John Phillips | Ken Jones | Nancy Nevinson | Renato Terra | Roy Holder | Christopher Reich | Lorenzo Monet | Michael Cronin | Forbes Collins | Tony Vogel | Steve Gardner | John Duttine | Michael Haughey | Keith Skinner | Cyril Shaps | John Tordoff | Keith Washington | Sergio Nicolai | Isabel Mestres | Renato Montalbano | Bruce Lidington | Derek Godfrey | Mimmo Craig | John Eastham | Robert Davey | Oliver Smith | George Camiller | Antonello Campodifiori | Tim Pearce | Paul Curran | Bruno Barnabe | Simon MacCorkindale | Lionel Guyett | Peter Harlowe | Carl Forgione | Pino Colizzi | Harold Bennett | Immad Cohen | Andrew Manson | Jonathan Muller