BARABBA (Original title)BARABBAS (Alternative title)BARRABAS (Alternative title)
Date: 23 December 1961 (Release)Countries: Italy, USADirector: Richard Fleischer
Synopsis: After being freed by Pontius Pilate, Barabas returns to his life of crime and soon ends up a slave in the sulphur mines of Sicily. He is forced to fight as a gladiator in the Roman arena and finally ends his life on the cross.
Genre: Drama
Subject: Bible stories
Releases
Date: 23 December 1961Country: ItalyRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 144 mins Length: 4188 MetresLanguage: English
Date: 23 December 1961 (Release)Countries: Italy, USADirector: Richard Fleischer
Synopsis: After being freed by Pontius Pilate, Barabas returns to his life of crime and soon ends up a slave in the sulphur mines of Sicily. He is forced to fight as a gladiator in the Roman arena and finally ends his life on the cross.
Genre: Drama
Subject: Bible stories
Releases
Date: 23 December 1961Country: ItalyRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 144 mins Length: 4188 MetresLanguage: English
Credits
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Production Company: Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica (Rome), Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Executive Producer: Bruno Todini, Producer: Dino De Laurentiis, Associate Producer: Luigi Luraschi, Unit Production Manager: Fernando Cinquini, Unit Production Manager: Antonio Girasante, Unit Production Manager: Guglielmo Ambrosi, Unit Production Manager: Gaetano Marzachi, Production Manager: Romano Dandi, Assistant to Producer: Ralph Serpe, Assistant Director: Alberto Cardone, Assistant Director: Roberto Malenotti, Assistant Director: Alessandro Spina, Script Supervisor: Anna Gruber, Screenplay: Christopher Fry, Screenplay: Diego Fabbri, Italian Dialogue by: Salvatore Quasimodo, From the novel by: Pär Lagerkvist, Director of Photography: Aldo Tonti, Camera Operator: Enzo Barboni, Camera Operator: Luigi Kuveiller, Special Effects: Ascani, Special Effects: Verdenelli, Editor: Alberto Gallitti, Editor: Raymond Poulton, Assistant Editor: Anna Maria Roca, Assistant Editor: Anna Bellini, Art Director: Mario Chiari, Assistant Art Director: Mario Scisci, Set Decorator: Maurizio Chiari, Assistant Set Decorator: Enzo Eusepi, Ermanno Manco, Costumes: Maria De Matteis, Make-up: Giuliano Laurenti, Hair: Elda Magnanti, Music: Mario Nascimbene, Music Director: Franco Ferrara, Sound Recording: Ettore Forni, Sound: Vittorio Trentino, Microphone Operator: Mario Celentano, Sound System: Westrex Sound Recording, Armourer: Alfio Caltabiano
Cast
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Anthony Quinn (Barabbas), Vittorio Gassman (Sahak), Silvana Mangano (Rachel), Jack Palance (Torvald), Arthur Kennedy (Pilate), Norman Wooland (Rufio), Valentina Cortese (Julia), Harry Andrews (Peter), Katy Jurado (Sara), Ernest Borgnine (Lucius), Arnoldo Foà (Joseph of Aramathea), Michael Gwynn (Lazarus), Guido Celano (Scorpio), Spartaco Nale (overseer), Bobby Hall (commander of gladiators), Joe Robinson (gladiator), Ivan Triesault (Emperor), Enrico Glori (important gentleman), Carlo Giustini, Friedrich Ledebur, Gianni De Benedetto (officer), Rina Braido (tavern reveller), Douglas Fowley (potter), Laurence Payne (disciple), Tullio Tomadoni (blind man), Maria Zanoli (beggar woman), Roy Managno (Jesus), Marcello Di Martire, Gustavo De Nardo, Vladimiro Piccifuochi, Nando Angelini, Charles Fawcett, Bill Kuehl, David Maunsell, Burt Nelson, Maureen Gavin ([uncredited]), Van Aikens ([slave woken up])