A.D. (1985)

Directors

Stuart Cooper

Cast

Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, David Hedison, John Houseman, Richard Kiley, James Mason, Ian McShane, Jennifer O'Neill, Millie Perkins, Denis Quilley, Fernando Rey, Richard Roundtree, Susan Sarandon, Ben Vereen, Tony Vogel, Jack Warden, Anthony Zerbe, Neil Dickson, Cecil Humphreys, Amanda Pays, Philip Sayer, Diane Venora, Michael Wilding, Jr., Vincenzo Ricotta, Rebecca Saire, Tom Durham, Anthony Pedley, Harold Kasket, Ralph Arliss, Mike Gwilym, Davyd Harris, Norma Martinelli, Bruce Winant, Jonathan Hyde, Damien Thomas, Derek Hoxby, Angela Morant, Clive Arrindell, Paul Freeman, Andrea Prodan, Akosua Busia, Vernon Dobtcheff, Gerrard McArthur, Jane How, Jonathan Tafler, Richard Kane, Barrie Houghton, Maggie Wickman, Alan Downer, Martin Potter, Colin Haigh, Renato Scarpa, Roderick Horn, John Wheatley, Joss Buckley, David Sumner, Stephen Finlay, Katia Thandoulaki, Eddie Grossman, David Haughton, John Steiner, Robert Wentz, Philip Anthony, Peter Blythe, Gary Brown, Peter Howell, David Rintoul, Ned Vukovic, Nicholas Ball, John McEnery

The story

The story tells the life histories about Saints Peter and Paul of Tarsus after the crucifixion of Jesus, and their individual fates in old Rome in the time of the persecution of Christians. Events in the New Testament Book of Acts by Luke and in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius are dramatized and interwoven with the contrasting histories of political intrigues in the public and private lives of the Caesars from Tiberius through Nero related in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, together with the fictional drama of the lives of two Jews and two Romans: Caleb the Zealot and his sister Sarah, and Julius Valerius the Imperial Guard and…

Genres

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