The Agony and the Ecstasy

Year: 1965

Runtime: 138 mins

Language: English

Director: Carol Reed

HistoryDramaFaith and religionHumanity and the world around usHistorical battles and epic heroism

Set in the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II commissions Michelangelo to sculpt a tomb of forty statues. When the pope later orders the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo doubts his abilities and initially abandons it. Inspired anew, he returns, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope’s demanding temperament, endangering the masterpiece.

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