The Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth is a 6:16 hour British television miniseries of the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus based on the accounts given in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
The movie was produced by Lew Grade through his ITC Entertainment company, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and written by Zeffirelli, Anthony Burgess and Suso Cecchi d'Amico, after Zeffirelli was approached by Pope Paul VI to make a film about Christ.

Jesus of Nazareth premiered in 1977 on Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday and continues to be broadcast every Easter and Christmas on the History Channel.

For its fifth airing on US television at Easter 1987, TV Guide called it "the best miniseries of all time" and "unparalleled television.".

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Newsweek writer Harry F. Waters remarked that:
Rarely have the humanity and divinity of Christ been evoked with as much passion, sensitivity, and ecumenical deference as Zeffirelli has brought to the story.

Rev. Patrick Sullivan of the U.S. Catholic Conference ("New Look at Jesus," April 4, 1977) was quoted as saying:

Zeffirelli has succeeded admirably in making Christ's story understandable to a modern secular audience.

A review in Variety read:

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. This film is beautifully shot on actual locations, with haunting music by Maurice Jarre and an all-star cast, including Anne Bancroft, Laurence Olivier, Ian Holm, Ernest Borgnine, Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer. Zeffirelli has created a thorough, but never dull or dogmatic, retelling of the story, and the result is a uniquely transcendental film that holds the power to inspire no matter what the viewer's beliefs or background.

Casts

Robert Powell as Jesus
Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalene
Ernest Borgnine as the Roman centurion
Claudia Cardinale as the Adulteress
Valentina Cortese as Herodias
James Farentino as Peter
James Earl Jones as Balthazar
Stacy Keach as Barabbas
Tony Lo Bianco as Quintillius
James Mason as Joseph of Arimathea
Ian McShane as Judas Iscariot
Laurence Olivier as Nicodemus
Donald Pleasence as Melchior
Christopher Plummer as Herod Antipas
Anthony Quinn as Caiaphas
Fernando Rey as Gaspar
Ralph Richardson as Simeon
Rod Steiger as Pontius Pilate
Peter Ustinov as Herod the Great
Michael York as John the Baptist
Olivia Hussey as Mary, the mother of Jesus
Cyril Cusack as Yehuda
Ian Holm as Zerah
Yorgo Voyagis as Joseph
Ian Bannen as Amos
Marina Berti as Elizabeth
Regina Bianchi as Saint Anne
Maria Carta as Martha
Renato Rascel as The Blind Man
Oliver Tobias as Joel

Norman Bowler as Saturninus
Robert Beatty as Proculus
John Phillips as Naso
Ken Jones as Jotham
Nancy Nevinson as Abigail
Renato Terra as Abel
Roy Holder as Enoch
Jonathan Adams as Adam
Lorenzo Monet as Jesus as 12yrs old
Robert Davey as Daniel
Oliver Smith as Saul
George Camiller as Hosias
Murray Salem as Simon the Zealot
Tony Vogel as Saint Andrew
Michael Cronin as Eliphaz
Steve Gardner as Philip the Apostle
Derek Godfrey as Elihu
Renato Montalbano as Jairus
John Duttine as John the Apostle
Michael Haughey as Nahum
Keith Skinner as Obsessed Boy
Cyril Shaps as Obsessed Boy's Father
Jonathan Muller as James, son of Zebedee
John Tordoff as Malachi
Bruce Lidington as Thomas
Keith Washington as Matthew the Evangelist
Mimmo Crao as Saint Jude Thaddeus
John Eastham as Bartholomew
Sergio Nicolai as James, son of Alphaeus
Francis De Wolff as Simon the Pharisee
Antonello Campodifiori as Ircanus
Paul Curran as Samuel
Tim Pearce as Rufus
Mark Eden as Quartus
Bruno Barnabe as Ezra
Simon MacCorkindale as Lucius
Forbes Collins as Jonas
Lionel Guyett as Haggai
Martin Benson as Pharisee
Peter Harlowe as Valerius
Carl Forgione as Plotinus
Donald Sumpter as Aram
Pino Colizzi as Jobab
Harold Bennett as Elder
Immad Cohen as Jesus as Toddler
Robert Mallard as Quazra
Andrew Manson as Zealot
Isabel Mestres as Salome
Christopher Reich as Circumcision-Priest

I Like the Story, i like every detailed from the scenes, and most of all The Actor Looks like the Real Jesus Christ, The Director had done a great job of creating these kind of masterpeice, it appears that the movie tells the story of jesus christ from his raise on december 25th until his execution on good friday, he was ressurected, and died for all of us who commits the sins.

love this movie.