To film his epic JESUS OF NAZARETH TV series, starring Robert Powell.Robert Powell, Actor: The Italian Job.
From the Nativity to the Crucifixion and Resurrection, the life of Jesus (played by Robert Powell) is presented with stunning depth, gravity, and emotion. Acclaimed director Franco Zeffirelli and an all-star cast come together to deliver a powerful adaptation of the Gospels in 1977's Jesus Of Nazareth. Not that Maurice Jarre’s JESUS OF NAZARETH does not seem appropriate, but it sounds somewhat… well, out of place, at least given the context.
I have also looked at the ways in which audiences make their own spiritual meanings through the images of film.Images of Jesus, or the Virgin Mary, have long been part of the Christian tradition. From still images to moving imagesFor the last two decades, I have researched the portrayal of religious figures on screen. These films have prompted devotion and missionary outreach, just as they have challenged viewers’ assumptions of who the figure of Jesus really was.
The 1986 Mexican film, “La vida de nuestro señor Jesucristo,” for example, is broadcast on the Spanish-language television station Univision during Easter week every year. Growing out of the Cold War, and led by radical Latin American priests, Liberation Theology worked in local communities to promote socio-economic justice.Meanwhile, the appeal of some of these films can also be gauged from how they continue to be watched year after year. The Cuban film “ The Last Supper,” from 1976, offered a vision of a Jesus that is on the side of the enslaved and oppressed, mirroring Latin American movements in Liberation Theology. With over 100 million viewers, it has become a tool for Christian evangelism.Other films have responded to and reflected local conditions in Latin America. The style resembles a long tradition of Hindu devotional and mythological films and Jesus could easily be seen as part of the pantheon of Hindu deities.For the past four decades in southern India and beyond, villagers have gathered in front of makeshift outdoor theaters to watch this film. The film employed traditional art forms of dance and music that retold the Jesus story in ways that would appeal to a South African audience.It was the same with a Telugu film, “Karunamayudu” (Ocean of Mercy), released in 1978.
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