The Day Christ Died (1980 Cellan-Jones), TV film
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The Day Christ Died (1980) is a TV film directed by James Cellan-Jones.
Abstract
Filmed in Tunisia, downplayed the religious aspects of the story to speculate on the political intrigues that led to the crucifixion. Jim Bishop, on whose 1957 novel the film is based, was so dissatisfied with it that he took his name off the final product. Starring Chris Sarandon as Jesus.
Editions and translations
Produced and broadcast in the United States (26 March 1980).
External links
- [ Wikipedia]
- The Internet Movie Database
Categories:
- 1980
- Fiction
- Cinema
- Films
- American Fiction
- American Cinema
- English language
- Made in the 1980s
- Jesus of Nazareth (subject)
- Jesus of Nazareth--fiction (subject)
- Jesus of Nazareth--cinema (subject)
- Caiaphas (subject)
- Pilate (subject)
- Pilate's wife (subject)
- Herod Antipas (subject)
- Judas Iscariot (subject)
- Peter (subject)
- Mary of Nazareth (subject)
- Mary Magdalene (subject)
- Nicodemus (subject)
- Annas (subject)
- Joseph of Arimathea (subject)