The Day Christ Died (1980) (TV)

Director:

James Cellan Jones

Writers:

Edward Anhalt (writer)
James Lee Barrett (writer)

Release Date:

26 March 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The Crucifixion of Christ seen more from a political and historical point of view than a spiritual one. |

Plot Keywords:

Crucifixion | Mary Magdalene | Virgin Mary | Pontius Pilate | Jesus Christ

Cast

Chris Sarandon	...	Jesus Christ
Colin Blakely	...	Caiaphas
Keith Michell	...	Pontius Pilate
Jonathan Pryce	...	Herod
Barrie Houghton	...	Judas
Jay O. Sanders	...	Peter
Eleanor Bron	...	Mary
Tim Pigott-Smith	...	Tullius
Delia Boccardo	...	Mary Magdelene
Hope Lange	...	Claudia
Oliver Cotton	...	John
Gordon Gostelow	...	Nicodemus
Harold Goldblatt	...	Annas
Gary Brown	...	Aaron
Leonard Maguire	...	The Demoniac

Runtime:

142 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

This is the worst film on Christ that I already saw!

This film is very depressive. I think who wrote him/it and it accomplished him/it certainly it doesn't believe that Jesus Christ resurrected and it arose to the heaven. In this film they are shown the last 24 hours of Jesus of Nazareth (Chris Sarandon). He begins with their disciples Peter and John going the city of Jerusalem, to find a place to prepare the dinner of Easter, following by the Last Supper, the prayer, the betrayal and the prison in the garden of Gethsemani, the judgement before the one of Highest Priest Caiaphas and of the main priests, Peter's denial, the interrogation before Pilate, the judgement in which the people choose Barabbas to be freed in Jesus' place, the flagellation, the coronation of thorns, the mockeries done by the Roman soldiers, the via-crucis (in the which Jesus only carries a part of the cross and no the cross completes) and it finishes when Jesus has his/her hand preached by the torturer in the log of the cross, and the image frozen there. The following image is the in that it shows Caiaphas and Pilate tends a fast conversation, saying that it is everything finishing and one wanting Happy Easter for the other,... and end. This film has an exquisite and detailed production, sceneries of the streets, of the houses, of the palaces, characterization and clothes of the guards of the Temple, of the soldiers and Roman centurions, of the priests, of Pilate, of the people, in a way that I think it must really have been at Judea and in Jerusalem 2000 years ago. And this film was faithful to the text of the Gospel in some parts, but in other the increment of scenes and of speeches, it fled completely to the sacred text, distorting completely. Judas, the traitor, nor it seems to be with total certainty of the one that intends do. But the great flaw of this film was without a doubt showing Jesus' last 24 hours, their judgement, suffering in an extremely heavy and depressive way, much more than in the other films on Christ that I saw. As for actor Chris Sarandon, until he interpreted Jesus Christ with plenty of competence, but it is not adapted for the paper. He is the first actor to represent Jesus Christ, without having the traditional characterization as all we knew of Jesus. Chris Sarandon doesn't have the long hair as it demands the paper. I don't agree with a film that doesn't show Jesus resurrecting, appearing to the disciples and arising to the heavens. In this point I give note 0 for the idealizadores, the producers and the enterprising of this film.

Which will the intention of the enterprising ones have been and producing with this film?