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📅 1965 ⏱️ 138 min ⭐ 7.1/10 👥 149 votes
🎭 Drama, History

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

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Detailed Plot Summary

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

Director

Carol Reed

Main Cast

Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston as Michelangelo
Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison as Papa Giulio II
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento as Contessina de'Medici
Harry Andrews
Harry Andrews as Bramante
Alberto Lupo
Alberto Lupo as Duca di Urbino
Adolfo Celi
Adolfo Celi as Giovanni de' Medici
Venantino Venantini
Venantino Venantini as Paride de Grassis
Tomas Milian
Tomas Milian as Raffaello Sanzio
John Stacy
John Stacy as Giuliano da Sangallo
Fausto Tozzi
Fausto Tozzi as uomo
Maxine Audley
Maxine Audley as Woman
Andrea Giordana
Andrea Giordana as aiutante di Michelangelo
Furio Meniconi
Furio Meniconi as contadino
Adolfo Pezzini as uomo alla cava
Paolo Magalotti
Paolo Magalotti as guardia svizzera

Writers

Philip Dunne

Producers

Carol Reed, Elmo Williams, Darryl F. Zanuck

Production Information

Release Date: September 16, 1965
Budget: $10.0 million
Box Office: $4.0 million
Runtime: 138 minutes
Original Language: EN
Production Companies: DDL Cinematografica, International Classics, 20th Century Fox
Filming Locations: Italy, United States of America

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👤 John Chard ⭐ 8.5/10
📅 September 18, 2014

When will you make an end?

When I am finished!

And so it be that that is the often repeated exchange between Rex Harrison's Pope Julius II & Charlton Heston's Michelangelo, and thus we have the basis for the film version of Irving Stone's novel The Agony & The Ectasy. This is a fictionalised account of how Michelango came to paint his masterpiece on the roof of the Sistine chapel, focusing solely on the two main characters of the piece, The Agony & The Ectasy is a character and dialogue dr...

👤 CinemaSerf ⭐ 7/10
📅 January 7, 2023

Depending on the version you see, this film starts with a gorgeously scored trip around some of the museums of Italy and of the Vatican allowing us to put the sheer magnificence of the talent of Michelangelo Buonarroti into context - and the volume and quality of that body of work, condensed into ten minutes or so, makes this worth watching just as a lesson in the history of art! The story is set during the Papacy of Julius II (Rex Harrison) the warlike, but artistically enlighted Pontiff who co...

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