Jesus

Jesus

18.4. 21:20
America TV
90 minutes
1999
Drama / Fantasy

The film is notable for presenting a more human Jesus, compared to more solemn portrayals in earlier films; here Jesus laughs and cries like anyone else. Among other things, he weeps at Joseph’s funeral, throws stones in Lake Galilee when meeting Simon Peter and James son of Zebedee for the first time, dances at the wedding at Cana, and starts a water-splashing fight with his disciples as well. Satan is portrayed as a man in modern dress (and as a woman in red). During his temptation of Jesus, he shows him the Earth from the vantage point of space. Satan also shows Jesus images of wars and destruction carried out in his name. The film adds an apocryphal Roman historian named “Livio” who watches and comments as events unfold; he is presumably named after Livy.

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1999
Drama / Fantasy

The film is notable for presenting a more human Jesus, compared to more solemn portrayals in earlier films; here Jesus laughs and cries like anyone else. Among other things, he weeps at Joseph’s funeral, throws stones in Lake Galilee when meeting Simon Peter and James son of Zebedee for the first time, dances at the wedding at Cana, and starts a water-splashing fight with his disciples as well. Satan is portrayed as a man in modern dress (and as a woman in red). During his temptation of Jesus, he shows him the Earth from the vantage point of space. Satan also shows Jesus images of wars and destruction carried out in his name. The film adds an apocryphal Roman historian named “Livio” who watches and comments as events unfold; he is presumably named after Livy.

Creators

Roger Young

Cast

Said Bey, Peter Gevisser, Tony Vogel, David O'Hara, Jeremy Sisto, Gary Oldman, Gilly Gilchrist, Jeroen Krabbé, Rick Warden, Jacqueline Bisset, Sebastian Knapp, Sean Harris, Claudio Amendola, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Roger Hammond, Iddo Goldberg, G.W. Bailey, Debra Messing, Josh Maguire, Elena Sofia Ricci, Maria Cristina Heller, Stefania Rocca, Christian Kohlund, Luca Zingaretti, Luca Barbareschi, Thomas Lockyer, Ian Duncan, Fabio Sartor, John H. Francis, Carl Pizzie, Nicholas Sidi, Abdelghafar Essalfi, Aziz Janah, Gabriella Pession, Manuela Ruggeri, Karim Doukkali, Abedelouhahad Mouaddine, El Housseine Dejjiti, Mohammed Taleb, Omar Lahlou, Miles C. Hobson, Zack Maguire, Jeremy Zimmermann, Elaine English, Elliot Levey, Ichrak Berraoui
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