Salome

Salome

25.12. 16:50
ČT2
100 minutes
1953
Drama / Historic

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...

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Czech, audio commentary Czech
1953
Drama / Historic

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...

Creators

Harry Kleiner, William Dieterle

Cast

Ralph Moody, George Keymas, Charles Wagenheim, Alan Badel, Stewart Granger, Bert Stevens, John Crawford, Carleton Young, John Wood, Tina Menard, Mickey Simpson, Judith Anderson, Basil Sydney, Leslie Denison, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Merrill McCormick, Robert Warwick, John Merton, Michael Mark, Guy Kingsford, Ray Beltram, Tony Urchel, David Leonard, Bud Cokes, George Khoury, Rita Hayworth, Jack Low, Charles Soldani, Tristram Coffin, Arnold Moss, Michael Granger, Lou Nova, Tom Hernández, Stanley Waxman, Rick Vallin, Maurice Schwartz, Rex Reason, Paul Hoffman, William Wilkerson, Sergej Perevozkin, Franz Roehn, Karl 'Killer' Davis