Herod the Great (film)

Herod the Great
Directed by	Victor Tourjansky
Written by	Damiano Damiani Tullio Pinelli Fernando Cerchio Victor Tourjansky
Music by	Carlo Savina
Cinematography	Massimo Dallamano
Release dates	1958
Language	Italian

Herod the Great (Italian: Erode il grande, French: Le roi cruel) is a 1958 Italian-French epic historical drama film directed by Victor Tourjansky.^[1][2]

Cast

• 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

1. Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
2. Gary A. Smith. Epic Films. McFarland, 2004. ISBN 0786415304.

External links

• Herod the Great at the Internet Movie Database