Director:
Mel Gibson (Braveheart, The Man Without a Face)

Screenwriter(s):
Ben Fitzgerald & Mel Gibson (feature film debuts)
translated into Latin and Aramaic by Jesuit linguistics professor Bill Fulco (debut)

Cinematographer:
Caleb Deschanel (Anna and the King, The Patriot, The Natural, Fly Away Home)

Composer:
John Debney (Bruce Almighty, Elf, The Scorpion King)

Actors:
James Caviezel (Jesus)
Maia Morgenstern (Mary)
Monica Bellucci (Mary Magdalene)
Hristo Jivkov (John of Zebedee)
Hristo Shopov (Pontius Pilate - as Hristo Naumov Shopov)
Rosalinda Celentano (Satan)
Francesco Cabras (Gesmas)
Claudia Gerini (Pilatus Wife)
Ted Rusoff (2nd Elder)
Francesco Gabriele (3rd Elder)
Angelo Di Loreta (The 5th Elder The Accuser)
Romuald Andrzej Klos (The Roman, flagellants' boss)
Sergio Rubini (Dismas)
Matt Patresi

SYNOPSIS __________

Plot:
"THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST" is a film about the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth’s life. The film opens in the Garden of Olives (Gethsemane) where Jesus has gone to pray after the Last Supper. Jesus resists Satan’s temptations. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, Jesus is arrested and taken back to within the city walls of Jerusalem where the leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death.

Jesus is brought before Pilate, the Roman Governor of Palestine, who listens to the accusations leveled at him by the Pharisees. Realizing he is confronting a political conflict, Pilate defers to King Herod in the matter. Herod returns Jesus to Pilate who gives the crowd a choice between Jesus and the criminal Barabbas. The crowd chooses to have Barabbas set free and to condemn Jesus.

Jesus is handed over to the Roman soldiers and flagellated. Unrecognizable now, he is brought back before Pilate, who presents him to the crowd as if to say “is this not enough?” It is not. Pilate washes his hands of the entire dilemma, ordering his men to do as the crowd wishes.

Jesus is presented with the cross and is ordered to carry it through the streets of Jerusalem all the way up to Golgotha. On Golgotha, Jesus is nailed to the cross and undergoes his last temptation - the fear that he has been abandoned by his Father. He overcomes his fear, looks at Mary, his Holy Mother, and makes the pronouncement which only she can fully understand, “it is accomplished.” He then dies: “into Thy hands I commend my Spirit.”

DETAILS__________

Studio:
Newmarket Films / Icon Entertainment (production)

Release Date:
Feb. 25, 2004

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