Herod the Great (film)

1959 film

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 (1959-01-01) (Italy)
* 21 August 1959 (1959-08-21) (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

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## Cast

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* 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

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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.

## External links

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* Herod the Great at IMDb

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