The King of Kings

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Mary Magdalene, the most beautiful and desired courtesan in Jerusalem, is disconcerted because Judas (Schildkraut) did not go to her date. He became a follower of Jesus (Warner). One day, among the acclaiming crowd, a blind boy acclaims the miracle and for the first time Jesus shows himself to the people. Magdalene, intrigued, approaches him and immediately decides to abandon her dissolute life, redeem herself and unite herself to Jesus. She will always be near him and will see the miracles, will hear his words until his Crucifixion and Resurrection. The epic movie of DeMille on the life of Jesus was one of the most beautiful of the mute film era and the most expensive (it costed 2,500,000 dollars). Despite the disastrous premiere, the film, whose scenes are inspired by famous religious paintings, was accompanied by captions in 27 languages ​​and became the most watched film in the world, making an astronomical amount of money, but we do not know how much precisely (perhaps almost 90 million dollars at the time), because then DeMille gave everything to charity to the poor and to the churches. The beginning and the end of the film are shot in a primitive Technicolor.
Duration: 157 '. Production: Usa 1921. Mute film, English captions, Italian subtitles.