Quo vadis

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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 13:36, 16:5, saying "pou hupageis, Kurie"). The most famous use is in the Apocryphal Acts of Peter.

The phrase's context is used in a literal or metaphorical sense when an individual has left or is leaving for a long time and/or distance.

Quo vadis may also refer to:

Contents 1 Literature 2 Stage, film and TV 3 Art and architecture 4 Games 5 Music 6 Restaurants and pubs 7 Other

[edit] Literature

• Quo Vadis (novel): a 1895 novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz

[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.
• "Quo Vadis, Capt. Chandler?" was the title of a 1975 episode of the television series M*A*S*H which featured a soldier who believed he was Jesus Christ.
• Stitched on the back of Gene from Eugene's shirt (Jeremy Davies') shirt in Werner Herzog's film Rescue Dawn.
• Quo Vadis (movie theater): a now-shuttered cinema in Westland, Michigan
• Quo Vadis? (ER episode)
• Quo Vaids (TV): company that buys Sports Night at end of second season

[edit] Art and architecture

• Quo Vadis (church): The "Chiesa del Domine Quo Vadis?"
• The painting "Domine, Quo Vadis" ("Whither goest thou, Lord?") by Annibale Carracci

[edit] Games

• Quo Vadis (board game): A German-style board game by Reiner Knizia
• Quo Vadis (1984 game): A 1984 computer game released for the Commodore 64
• Quo Vadis (video game): A Japanese wargame for the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation

[edit] Music

• Quo Vadis (Australian Status Quo Tribute band ): an Australian tribute band
• Quo Vadis (band): a Canadian death metal band
• Quo Vadis (Polish band): a Polish thrash metal band
• "Quo Vadis" (song): a song by the Japanese band Deadman, on the No Alternative album
• "Quo Vadis" (song): a song by the Australian band Hoodoo Gurus, on the Crank album
• Quo Vadis (musical composition): a large-scale, 100-minute musical composition for soloists, chorus and orchestra, composed in 1947 by the English composer Sir George Dyson

[edit] Restaurants and pubs

• Quo Vadis (Australian restaurant): an Italian restaurant in Swan Hill, Australia
• Quo Vadis (public house): a public house in Cardonald, Glasgow
• Quo Vadis (UK restaurant): an Italian restaurant in Soho, London, United Kingdom

[edit] Other

• Quo Vadis (automobile): a French automobile produced from 1921 to 1923
• Quo Vadis (boat): a Door County, Wisconsin ferryboat that carries passengers between Fish Creek and Chambers Island
• Quo Vadis (brand): a range of footwear released in India by Bata Shoes
• Quo Vadis: campus newspaper of Middlesex County College
• Quo Vadis (haircut): a style of haircut, where the hair is trimmed very short; popular among some African-American men
• Quo Vadis: a company most known for its manufacture of agenda books and planners
• Quo Vadis is the name and focus of many campaigns in Western countries, seeking to encourage young Roman Catholic men to discern a priestly vocation.