The Agony and the Ecstasy
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1965
2h 18m
English
Drama, History
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
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Cast
Michelangelo
Papa Giulio II
Contessina de'Medici
Bramante
Duca di Urbino
Giovanni de' Medici
Giuliano da Sangallo
Woman
aiutante di Michelangelo
contadino
uomo alla cava
guardia svizzera
Cardinal
Cardinal
Seductive Woman (uncredited)
Narrator (uncredited)
Raphael
Foreman
Paris De Grassis
Directed By: Carol Reed
Written By: Philip Dunne (Screenplay), Irving Stone (Novel)
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John Chard
6 years ago
When will you make an end?
When I am finished!
And so it be that that is the often repeated exchange between Rex Harrison's Pope Julius II & Charlton Heston's Michelangelo, and thus we have the basis for the film version of Irving Stone's novel The Agony & The Ectasy. This is a fictionalised a More
When I am finished!
And so it be that that is the often repeated exchange between Rex Harrison's Pope Julius II & Charlton Heston's Michelangelo, and thus we have the basis for the film version of Irving Stone's novel The Agony & The Ectasy. This is a fictionalised a More
CinemaSerf
one year ago
Depending on the version you see, this film starts with a gorgeously scored trip around some of the museums of Italy and of the Vatican allowing us to put the sheer magnificence of the talent of Michelangelo Buonarroti into context - and the volume and quality of that body of work, condensed into te More
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