A.D. (film)

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A.D.
Directed by	Stuart Cooper
Produced by	Tarak Ben Ammar & Vincenzo Labella
Music by	Lalo Schifrin
Editing by	John A. Martinelli, ACE
Country	Britain Italy

A.D. (Anno Domini) is a British/Italian miniseries from 1985 in 6 parts which tells the Acts of the Apostles. Considered as the third and final installment in a TV miniseries trilogy which began with Moses the Lawgiver and Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth ^[1], it was adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked, which was itself a sequel to Burgess's book Man Of Nazareth, on which was based Zeffirelli's movie.

Contents 1 Plot 2 The Cast 3 The Crew 4 See also 5 External links 6 Notes

[edit] Plot

The story tells the life histories about Saint Peter and Paul of Tarsus after the Crucifixion of Jesus, and their individual fates in the old Rome in time of Persecution of Christians.

[edit] The Cast

Anthony Andrews - Nero Colleen Dewhurst - Antonia Minor Ava Gardner - Agrippina the Younger David Hedison - Porcius Festus John Houseman - Gamaliel Richard Kiley - Claudius James Mason - Tiberius John McEnery - Caligula Ian McShane - Sejanus Jennifer O'Neill - Messalina Millie Perkins - Mary, mother of Jesus Denis Quilley - Saint Peter Fernando Rey - Seneca the Younger Richard Roundtree - Serpenius Susan Sarandon - Livilla Ben Vereen - The Ethiopian Tony Vogel - Aquila Jack Warden - Nerva Anthony Zerbe - Pontius Pilate Neil Dickson - Valerius Cecil Humphreys - Caleb Amanda Pays - Sarah Philip Sayer - Paul of Tarsus Diane Venora - Corinna Michael Wilding, Jr. - Jesus Vincent Riotta - Saint Stephen Rebecca Saire - Ruth Tom Durham - Cleophas Anthony Pedley - Zacchaeus Harold Kasket - Caiaphas Ralph Arliss - Samuel Mike Gwilym - Pallas Davyd Harris - Thomas Bruce Winant - Seth Jonathan Hyde - Tigellinus

Damien Thomas - Agrippa I Derek Hoxby - Agrippa II Angela Morant - Priscilla Clive Arrindell - Cassius Chaerea Paul Freeman - Centurion Cornelius Andrea Prodan - Britannicus Akosua Busia - Claudia Acte Vernon Dobtcheff - Titus Flavius Sabinus Gerrard McArthur - Luke the Evangelist Jane How - Poppaea Sabina Jonathan Tafler - Aaron Richard Kane - Agrippa Postumus Barrie Houghton - Ananias Maggie Wickman - Apicata Alan Downer - Barnabas Martin Potter - Gaius Calpurnius Piso Colin Haigh - James the Just Renato Scarpa - Lucius Marinus Roderick Horn - Marcellus John Wheatley - Mark the Evangelist Joss Buckley - Matthew the Evangelist David Sumner - Saint Matthias Stephen Finlay - Nicanor Katia Thandoulaki - Claudia Octavia Eddie Grossman - Parmenas David Haughton - Petronius John Steiner - Simon Magus Robert Wentz - Thrasyllus Philip Anthony - Saint James the Great Peter Blythe - Procuius Gary Brown - Philip of Side Peter Howell - Atticus David Rintoul - Pope Linus Ned Vukovic - Triumvir

[edit] The Crew

• Teleplay by: Anthony Burgess & Vincenzo Labella
• Director of Photography: Ennio Guarnieri, AIC
• Film Editor:
• Costumes by: Enrico Sabbatini

[edit] See also

• Seven Deacons

[edit] External links

• A.D. at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] Notes