(++) Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew / 1964 Pasolini), feature film
Il vangelo secondo Matteo <Italian> / The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) is a film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Abstract
Based solely on the gospel of Matthew and dedicated “alla cara, lieta, familiare memoria di Giovanni XXIII” by the Marxist director, is one of the universally acknowledged masterpieces of religious cinema. Attempt to make Jesus more realistic and less a Hollywood concoction involves non-professional actors from a peasant location in Southern Italy in a choral and touching reenactment of the life of Jesus as the advocate of the poor and oppressed.
Editions and translations
Produced in Italy (1964).
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Categories:
- 1964
- Fiction
- Italian Fiction
- Italian Cinema
- Cinema
- Films
- Italian language
- Made in the 1960s
- Jesus of Nazareth (subject)
- Jesus of Nazareth--Cinema (subject)
- Gospel of Matthew (text)
- See also:
- Mary of Nazareth (subject)
- Joseph of Nazareth (subject)
- Peter (subject)
- Andrew (subject)
- James son of Zebedee (subject)
- John (subject)
- Philip the Apostle (subject)
- Bartholomew (subject)
- Thomas (subject)
- Matthew (subject)
- James son of Alphaeus (subject)
- Thaddeus (subject)
- Simon the Zealot (subject)
- Judas Iscariot (subject)
- Caiaphas (subject)
- Pilate (subject)
- Herod the Great (subject)
- Herod Antipas (subject)
- Herodias (subject)
- Salome (subject)
- Joseph of Arimathea (subject)
- Mary of Bethany (subject)