The Agony and Ecstasy
feature film, 1965
DIRECTED BY: Carol Reed
CAST:
Charlton Heston,
Rex Harrison,
Diane Cilento
SCRIPT:
Philip Dunne (na temelju istoimenog romana Irvinga Stonea)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Leon Shamroy
Synopsis:
A film about the ‘militant pope’ Julius II and great Renaissance artist
Michelangelo, and his agreement to paint the famous ceiling of the Sistine
chapel, although he complained that he ‘was not a painter, but a sculptor’…
Biographical spectacle whose budget was, then enormous, twelve million dollars,
but which earned only four. The film got several Oscar nominations.
color, 140 min