Jesus (1999) (TV)

Director:

Roger Young

Writer (WGA):

Suzette Couture (teleplay)

Release Date:

14 May 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Drama | History

Tagline:

The greatest story of all time.

Plot:

A movie about the life, work and death of Jesus as we know it from the Bible.

Plot Keywords:

Roman | Jewish | Judas | Miracle | John The Baptist

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 nominations

Cast

Jeremy Sisto	...	Jesus
Debra Messing	...	Mary Magdalene
Armin Mueller-Stahl	...	Joseph
Jacqueline Bisset	...	Mary
Gary Oldman	...	Pontius Pilate
David O'Hara	...	John The Baptist
Claudio Amendola	...	Barabbas
G.W. Bailey	...	Philo
Luca Zingaretti	...	Peter
Luca Barbareschi	...	Herod Antipas
Christian Kohlund	...	Caiaphas
Elena Sofia Ricci	...	Herodias
Stefania Rocca	...	Mary of Bethany
Gabriella Pession	...	Salome
Maria Cristina Heller	...	Martha of Bethany
Jeroen Krabbé	...	Satan - Man
Manuela Ruggeri	...	Satan - Woman
Peter Gevisser	...	Lazarus
Thomas Lockyer	...	Judas
Ian Duncan	...	John
Gilly Gilchrist	...	Andrew
Fabio Sartor	...	James
Sebastian Knapp	...	Matthew
Sean Harris	...	Thomas
Karim Doukkali	...	Philip
Said Bey	...	Taddeus
Abedelouhahad Mouaddine	...	James II
El Housseine Dejjiti	...	Simon
Mohammed Taleb	...	Bartholomew
Omar Lahlou	...	Nathaniel
Miles C. Hobson	...	Jesus at 6 years old
Josh Maguire	...	Young Jesus
Zack Maguire	...	Young John
Roger Hammond	...	Mordecai
Rick Warden	...	Jared
Iddo Goldberg	...	Seth
Jeremy Zimmermann	...	Man with Mary Magdalene
Elaine English	...	Canaanite Woman
Tony Vogel	...	Farmer
John Francis	...	Zerah
Carl Pizzie	...	Young Zealot 1
Nicholas Sidi	...	Young Zealot 2
Elliot Levey	...	Tax Collector
Ichrak Berraoui	...	Adulteress

Directed by
Roger Young

Writing credits (WGA)
Suzette Couture		(teleplay)

Produced by
Roberta Cadringher	....	associate producer
Russell Kagan	....	producer
Frank Konigsberg	....	co-executive producer
Heinrich Krauss	....	producer: KirchMedia
Paolo Lucidi	....	line producer
Lorenzo Minoli	....	executive producer
Gianmario Pagano	....	associate producer
Judd Parkin	....	executive producer
Paolo Piria	....	producer

Original Music by
Patrick Williams

Cinematography by
Raffaele Mertes		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Benjamin A. Weissman		(as Benjamin Weissman)

Casting by
Barbara Giordani
Cornelia von Braun

Production Design by
Paolo Biagetti

Costume Design by
Simonetta Leoncini
Giovanni Viti

Makeup Department
Claudia Catini	....	hair stylist
Francesca De Simone	....	hair stylist
Annamaria Ginnoto	....	hair stylist
Mirella Ginnoto	....	key hair stylist
Enrico Iacoponi	....	makeup artist
Federico Laurenti	....	makeup artist
Elda Magnanti	....	key hair stylist
Antonio Maltempo	....	makeup artist
Alessandra Sampaolo	....	makeup artist
Fabrizio Sforza	....	key makeup artist
Edward Ternes	....	hair stylist: Miss Bisset
Edward Ternes	....	makeup artist: Miss Bisset
Gianna Viola	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Jawad Cherkaoui	....	unit manager: Morocco
Ahmed Darif	....	production manager: Morocco
Federico Foti	....	unit manager
Giovanni Lovatelli	....	unit production manager
Alessandro Lucidi	....	post-production supervisor
Marco Olivieri	....	unit manager
Malcolm Scerri-Ferrante	....	production manager: Malta

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Noureddine Aberdine	....	second assistant director
Sergio Ercolessi	....	first assistant director
Emanuela Minoli	....	second second assistant director
Barbara Pastrovich	....	second assistant director
Jeff Vacirca	....	trainee assistant director (as Jeffrey Alan Vacirca)

Art Department
Pasquale Avvisato	....	property master
Fabio Carussi	....	construction team
Angelo Caso	....	sculptor
Luciano Curti	....	painter
Marco Davoli	....	construction team
Tatiana Hahn	....	assistant set dresser (as Titjana Hahn)
Claudio Magrini	....	key construction
Barnaba Pagliarini	....	upholsterer
Pietro Petri	....	construction team
Alberto Ruiu	....	key plasterer
Sergio Ruiu	....	plasterer
Giovanni Battista Russo	....	construction team
Giancarlo Sensidoni	....	key painter
Domenico Sica	....	key art director
Titus Vossberg	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Bernard Bats	....	sound mixer
Beau Biggart	....	adr mixer
Pierre-Yves Bruneel	....	boom operator
Kevin Patrick Burns	....	sound re-recording mixer
Tim Chilton	....	foley artist
Bob Costanza	....	sound editor
Jim Fitzpatrick	....	sound re-recording mixer
Tommy Goodwin	....	foley mixer
G. Michael Graham	....	supervising sound editor (as Michael Graham)
Stephen Grubbs	....	sound editor
Kristi Johns	....	supervising adr editor
Terry O'Bright	....	sound re-recording mixer
Keith Rogers	....	sound re-recording mixer

Special Effects by
Marco Corridori	....	special effects
Claudio Quaglietti	....	special effects coordinator
Silvano Scasseddu	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Alessia Bassi	....	visual effects post-production coordinator
Loren Bivens	....	visual effects
Deane Boeka	....	visual effects
Marcello Buffa	....	visual effects post-production supervisor
David Bush	....	visual effects supervisor
Carla Calderoni	....	visual effects post-production coordinator
Amedeo Califano	....	digital artist
Beppe Carabelli	....	visual effects post-production coordinator
Alessandro Cioffi	....	digital compositor
Chris DeCristo	....	digital compositor
Lori Freitag-Hild	....	visual effects artist
George Garcia	....	visual effects
Armando Lombardo	....	compositor
Mario Negrocusa	....	visual effects technical supervisor
Guido Pappadá	....	digital effects production manager
Ivan Parillo	....	digital artist: Dyte
Alessandro Saponi	....	digital artist
Franco Sgueglia	....	digital effects coordinator
Scott Snyder	....	visual effects
Craig Weiss	....	visual effects supervisor
Niel Wray	....	digital effects artist (as Neil Wray)
Riccardo Zanettini	....	digital artist
Hraefn Wulfson	....	model maker (uncredited)

Stunts
Younes Afroukh	....	stunt performer
Giorgio Antonini	....	stunts
Faycal Attougui	....	stunts
Othman Ilyassa	....	stunts
Gérard Lesage	....	stunts
Stefano Maria Mioni	....	stunts
Abdellah Oukseh	....	stunt performer
Cedric Proust	....	stunts
Joel Proust	....	stunt coordinator
Franco Maria Salamon	....	stunt coordinator
Mustapha Touki	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Brahim Ait Belkas	....	second assistant camera
Armando Barberi	....	focus puller: "a" camera
Paolo Bovi	....	grip
Bruno Bruni	....	still photographer
Claudio Conti	....	grip
Giovanni Cuomo	....	grip
Fabio Delle Fratte	....	clapper loader
Giovanni Galasso	....	director of photography: second unit
Stanislao Galasso	....	electrician
Maurizio Lorenzetti	....	assistant camera
Maurizio Lorenzetti	....	focus puller: "b" camera
Massimo Lupi	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Roberto Luzi	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Duccio Maccari	....	clapper loader
Driss Marzak	....	gaffer
Roberto Moreschini	....	key grip
Marco Porto	....	electrician

Casting Department
Barbara Giordani	....	casting: Italy
Wendy Kurtzman	....	casting: USA
Mohamed Nesrate	....	extras casting
Cornelia von Braun	....	casting: Germany
Jeremy Zimmermann	....	casting: Europe
Lana Veenker	....	casting assistant: London (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Romano Amidei	....	seamstress
Romano Amidei	....	tailor
Abderrahim Benkhayi	....	costumes
Vincenzo Cancellara	....	set costumer
Antonia Chimera	....	set costumer
Francesca Di Tocco	....	seamstress
Francesca Di Tocco	....	tailor
Ali Lammari	....	set costumer
Rossano Marchi	....	costume ager/dyer
Mustapha Mimis	....	set costumer
Anna Orazi	....	set costumer
Giulia Orsacchiotto	....	seamstress
Giulia Orsacchiotto	....	tailor
Olga Pagnotta	....	cutter
Olga Pagnotta	....	tailor
Uliva Pizzetti	....	assistant to costume designers
Maria Antonietta Salvatori	....	set costumer
Hassan Taghriti	....	costume supervisor

Editorial Department
Lynn Abroms	....	assistant editor
Giancarlo Barberi	....	color timer
Luigi Di Fabio	....	negative cutter
Michael H. Friedlander	....	second editor (as Michael Freidlander)
Charlotte Grau	....	colorist
David Lebowitz	....	assistant editor
Rosario Ranieri	....	post-production coordinator

Music Department
Mike Curb	....	executive producer: soundtrack album
Penka Kouneva	....	lead orchestrator
Dino A. Moriana	....	music editor (as Dino Moriana)
Patrick Williams	....	conductor

Transportation Department
Abdelhay Elanbassi	....	transportation
Abdenabi Izlaguen	....	transportation coordinator
Enrico Pini	....	transportation coordinator
Giuliano Troiano	....	driver (as Giuliano Trojano)

Other crew
Damian Anderson	....	production coordinator: Rome
Gianfranco Basti	....	historical & biblical advisor
Tikon of Bronnisty	....	historical & biblical advisor (as Tikon of Bronnitsky)
Carmine Cellitti	....	catering chef
Valter De Filippis	....	gennyman
Francesca Deodato	....	production secretary
Gabriella Di Santo	....	production coordinator
Riccardo Di Segni	....	historical & biblical advisor
Francis Dokyi	....	production runner: Rome (as Francis B.K. Dokti)
Zouhar El Fassi	....	accountant: Morocco (as Zouheir El Fassi)
Francesco Fischietti	....	assistant: Mr. Minoli
Marco Frisina	....	historical & biblical advisor
Daniele Garonne	....	historical & biblical advisor (as Daniele Garrone)
Pat Garrett	....	choreographer: Salome's dance
Giampaolo Grassi	....	armorer
Michele Greco	....	location manager
Rachel Griffiths	....	script supervisor
Heinrich Krauss	....	historical & biblical advisor
Pierpaolo Marcelli	....	story editor
Gaia Marotta	....	production secretary
Marco Olivieri	....	location manager
Gianmario Pagano	....	historical & biblical advisor
Franco Penna	....	chief accountant
Roberto Penna	....	production auditor
Carla Maria Perrina	....	payroll clerk
Andrea Piria	....	accountant
Gianluigi Prato	....	historical & biblical advisor
Joel Proust	....	horse master
Elio Usai	....	gennyman
Laura Vergelli	....	dialogue adaptor

Thanks
Enrico Sabbatini	....	in memory of

Production Companies

• Antena 3 Televisión (in association with)
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD) (in association with)
• Beta Film
• British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) (in association with)
• Ceská Televize (in association with)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
• Five Mile River Films
• France 2 (FR2) (in association with)
• KirchMedia
• Lube Productions
• Lux Film
• Lux Vide
• Nederlandse Christelijke Radio Vereniging (NCRV) (in association with)
• Quinta Communications USA Inc.
• Quinta Communications
• Radiotelevisione Italiana

Distributors

• Con Dios Entertainment (2011) (Australia) (DVD)
• ARD Degeto Film (2003) (worldwide) (all media) (as ARD) (in association with)
• Antena 3 Televisión (2003) (worldwide) (all media) (in association with)
• British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) (2003) (worldwide) (all media) (in association with)
• Ceská Televize (2003) (worldwide) (all media) (in association with)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (2000) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Emerald (Argentina) (DVD)
• Emerald (Argentina) (VHS)
• Flashstar (Brazil) (DVD)
• Flashstar (Brazil) (VHS)
• France 2 (FR2) (2003) (worldwide) (all media) (in association with)
• MTM Enterprises (2003) (worldwide) (all media) (in association with) (as MTM)
• Nederlandse Christelijke Radio Vereniging (NCRV) (2003) (worldwide) (all media) (in association with)
• Radiotelevisione Italiana (2003) (Italy) (all media) (RIA Fiction) (in association with)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD)
• Time-Life Video (2003) (worldwide) (all media)
• Trimark Home Video (2000) (USA) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Interactive Group (visual effects) (as Interactive Group Milan)
• CBS Digital

Other Companies

• Biblical Studio Morocco  filming studio
• Capitol Records  music from and inspired by soundtrack album available on
• Corail Film  service in Morocco by
• Echo Sound Services  sound editing (as Echo Sound Service Inc.)
• Kodak Italia  filmed in (as Kodak Motion Picture Film)
• LVR  telecine by: Rome
• Lorenzo Marini and Associates  "Jesus" logo created by
• Mediterranean Film Studios Ltd.  service in Malta by
• North Africa Horses and Camels  horse master
• Post Group, The  telecine by: Los Angeles (as Post Group)
• Sparrow Records  music from and inspired by soundtrack album available on
• Technovision  camera and grip equipment (as Technovision Rome)
• Videogamma  titles and opticals (as Videogamma Rome)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

Argentina:110 min | Canada:174 min | USA:240 min (2 parts)

Country:

Czech Republic | Italy | Germany | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-11

Filming Locations:

Ouarzazate, Morocco

Company:

Antena 3 Televisión

Trivia:

Broadcast the same year as 'Mary: Mother of Jesus (1999) (TV)', which featured Christian Bale as Jesus. Jeremy Sisto went on to voice Batman in 'Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)(TV)'. Christian Bale played Batman in Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Also appearing was Gary Oldman, who plays Pontius Pilate in this film.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the officials are talking about taking the adultress before Jesus to trap him, her eye makeup is all smeared. Yet when they are talking to Jesus, it's been cleaned up.

Quotes:

Jesus:Martha, you've embarrassed Mary.
Martha:And you've enchanted her.

Movie Connections:

Follows Joseph (1995) (TV)

Soundtrack:

I Need You

The Jesus I know, who laughs and sees the big picture

This is the best version of a Jesus film I have ever seen. Realistic, made so by the human emotions and the diverse personal viewpoints casually merged with the storyline. It seems everyone gets to see it from their perspective without the story of Jesus losing the focal point..Jesus.. Jesus is portrayed as I have come to see Him. Truly the Son of God while having lived as a human being. Laughed, joking, crying, in pain, alone and truly human while still doing the will of the Father and triumphing gloriously. I couldn't stop crying throughout, it was as if I was there. "Jesus" is brought without giving offense to Christians and non-christians alike. Brilliantly played by Jeremy Sisto, giving Jesus the human side so sadly lacking because of the mostly "holy" attitude forced upon Jesus in earlier films. A special mention for Jeroen Krabbé who excellently portrayed the devil in a way that follows the description the Bible brings, far from weak but wily, devious, power hungry, scared and very much aware of his position in the grand scheme of things and of his ultimate defeat. The filmography, lighting and scenery were done exceptionally and add to the experience. Heartily recommended.