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.
Elenco: Robert Powell , Anne Bancroft , Ernest Borgnine , Claudia Cardinale , James Farentino , James Earl Jones , Stacy Keach , Tony Lo Bianco , James Mason , Ian McShane , Laurence Olivier , Donald Pleasence , Christopher Plummer , Anthony Quinn , Fernando Rey , Ralph Richardson , Rod Steiger , Peter Ustinov , Michael York , Olivia Hussey , Cyril Cusack , Yorgo Voyagis , Ian Holm , Ian Bannen , Maria Carta , Marina Berti , Regina Bianchi , Lee Montague , Renato Rascel , Oliver Tobias , Norman Bowler , Robert Beatty , John Phillips , Ken Jones , Nancy Nevinson , Renato Terra , Roy Holder , Jonathan Adams , Christopher Reich , Lorenzo Monet , Michael Cronin , Forbes Collins , Tony Vogel , Murray Salem , Steve Gardner , John Duttine , Michael Haughey , Keith Skinner , Cyril Shaps , Jonathan Muller , John Tordoff , Keith Washington , Sergio Nicolai , Isabel Mestres , Renato Montalbano , Bruce Lidington , Derek Godfrey , Mimmo Craig , John Eastham , Robert Davey , Oliver Smith , George Camiller , Francis de Wolff , Antonello Campodifiori , Tim Pearce , Paul Curran , Mark Eden , Bruno Barnabe , Simon MacCorkindale , Lionel Guyett , Martin Benson , Peter Harlowe , Carl Forgione , Donald Sumpter , Pino Colizzi , Harold Bennett , Immad Cohen , Andrew Manson , Valentina Cortese .