The Agony and the Ecstasy

• Movie

  Type

• 1965

  Year

• 2h 18m

  Runtime

• ★ 7.0

  Rating

• Drama

  Genre

Charlton Heston stars as Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), who begrudgingly paints the Sistine Chapel for imperious Pope Julius II in this epic adaptation of Irvine Stone's novel directed by Carol Reed. While the novel covers Michelangelo's life from birth to death, the film focuses on the battle of wills between the perfectionist artist and the impatient Pope who commissions (and eventually commands) him to paint the famed chapel.

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Cast

Charlton Heston

Michelangelo

Rex Harrison

Papa Giulio II

Diane Cilento

Contessina de'Medici

Harry Andrews

Bramante

Alberto Lupo

Duca di Urbino

Adolfo Celi

Giovanni de' Medici

Venantino Venantini

Paride de Grassis

Tomás Milián

Raffaello Sanzio

John Stacy

Giuliano da Sangallo

Fausto Tozzi

uomo

Maxine Audley

donna

Andrea Giordana

aiutante di Michelangelo