Herod the Great (film)

Herod the Great
Herod the Great
Directed by	Victor Tourjansky
Screenplay by	Damiano Damiani; Tullio Pinelli; Fernando Cerchio; Victor Tourjansky;
Story by	Damiano Damiani; Tullio Pinelli;
Produced by	Robert de Nesle; Alberta Dionisi; Federico Galliani; Victor Tourjansky; Bruno Turchetto; Giorgio Venturini;
Starring	Edmund Purdom; Sylvia Lopez;
Cinematography	Massimo Dallamano
Edited by	Antonietta Zita
Music by	Carlo Savina
Production; companies	Vic Film; Faro Film; Explorer Film '58; Comptoir Français de Productions Cinématographiques;
Distributed by	Euro International Films
Release dates	1 January 1959 (Italy); 21 August 1959 (France);
Running time	93 minutes
Countries	Italy; France;
Language	Italian

Herod the Great (Italian: Erode il grande, French: Le roi cruel) is a 1959 Italian-French epic historical drama film directed by Victor Tourjansky.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Cast

Edmund Purdom as Herod
Sylvia Lopez as Maryam
Sandra Milo as Sarah
Elena Zareschi as Alexandra
Alberto Lupo as Aronne
Massimo Girotti as Gaius Octavian
Andrea Giordana as Little Daniele
Corrado Pani as Antipatro, later Herod Antipas
Renato Baldini as Claudio
Camillo Pilotto as The High Priest
Fedele Gentile as Oreb
Olga Solbelli as Mother of the condemned
Enrico Glori as Taret
Carlo D'Angelo as The man who saw the Messiah's birth
Enzo Fiermonte
Adolfo Geri
Nino Marchetti
Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.

References

^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
^ Gary A. Smith (2004). Epic Films. McFarland, 2004. ISBN 0786415304.

External links

Herod the Great at IMDb

[ff9-1] Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.

[2] Gary A. Smith (2004). Epic Films. McFarland, 2004. ISBN 0786415304.

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