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Quo vadis is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you going?" It is used as a proverbial phrase from the Bible (John 16:5). The most famous use is in the Apocryphal Acts of Peter.
Quo vadis may also refer to:
[edit] Literature
[edit] Stage, film and TV
- Quo Vadis (1900 play): A Broadway play that opened at the New York Theatre on April 9, 1900. It was produced by F. C. Whitney and written for the stage by Hugh Stanislaus Stange from the Henryk Sienkiewicz novel.
- Quo Vadis (1902 film): a French silent version directed by Lucien Nonguet and Ferdinand Zecca, no cast credited.
- Quo Vadis 1909 opera by Jean Nouges.
- Quo Vadis (1912 film): an Italian silent version, adapted and directed by Enrico Guazzoni, starring Amelia Cattaneo, Carlo Cattaneo, Lea Giunchi and Giovanni Gizzi. Regarded by film historians as the first successful feature-length motion picture, it inspired D. W. Griffith to make The Birth of a Nation.
- Quo Vadis (1924 film): an Italian silent film starring Elga Brink, Rina De Liguoro, Lillian Hall-Davis, Emil Jannings and Elena Sangro. It was adapted and directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby and produced by Arturo Ambrosio.
- Quo Vadis (1951 film): a lavish MGM production, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov.
- Quo Vadis (1985 film): a television mini-series starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Frederic Forrest, Marie Therese Relin and Francesco Quinn. It was directed by Franco Rossi and written by Ennio De Concini, Francesco Scardamaglia and Franco Rossi.
- Quo Vadis (2001 film): a Polish language version, directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and starring Paweł Deląg, Magdalena Mielcarz, Bogusław Linda and Michał Bajor.
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