Herod the Great (film)

1959 film

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

CinematographyMassimo DallamanoEdited byAntonietta ZitaMusic byCarlo Savina

Production
companies

Vic Film
Faro Film
Explorer Film '58
Comptoir Français de Productions Cinématographiques

Distributed byEuro International Films

Release dates

1 January 1959 (1959-01-01) (Italy)
21 August 1959 (1959-08-21) (France)

Running time

93 minutesCountries

Italy
France

LanguageItalian

Herod the Great (Italian: Erode il grande, French: Le roi cruel) is a 1958 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. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
^ Gary A. Smith (2004). Epic Films. McFarland, 2004. ISBN 0786415304.