Marco Polo (mini-series)
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Marco Polo | |
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Genre | Drama, History |
Written by | David Butler Vincenzo Labella Giuliano Montaldo |
Directed by | Giuliano Montaldo |
Starring | Ken Marshall Denholm Elliott F. Murray Abraham Anne Bancroft John Gielgud John Houseman Burt Lancaster Tony Lo Bianco Ian McShane Leonard Nimoy David Warner James Hong |
Composer(s) | Ennio Morricone |
Country of origin | United States Italy |
Language(s) | English |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Giovanni Bertolucci Franco Cristaldi Vincenzo Labella |
Co-executive producer(s) |
Renato M. Pachetti |
Producer(s) | Vincenzo Labella |
Associate producer(s) |
John A. Martinelli |
Editor(s) | John A. Martinelli |
Location(s) | China Italy Mongolia Morocco |
Cinematography | Pasqualino De Santis |
Running time | 480 min. |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | NBC RAI |
Picture format | Film |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original airing | May 16, 1982 December 5, 1982 |
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IMDb profile | |
TV.com summary |
Macro Polo is an american-italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States and RAI in Italy in 1982. It starred Ken Marshall as Marco Polo, the 14th-century Venetian explorer. The series also featured cameo appearances by Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Leonard Nimoy, and others. It was originally broadcast in four episodes, where episodes 1 and 4 were twice as long as episodes 2 and 3. The series is sometimes divided into six equally long episodes.
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