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	Quo Vadis?- A film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
		Quo Vadis is a story, as behooves a Nobel prize-winning novel, with an intricate plot, one well known to the members of Polish audiences most of whom have read the book.
		Miroslaw Skowinski, the films producer, said in an interview with Roman Paszak of the Welcome to Poznan magazine, that filming the scene in which Ursus frees Ligia from the back of the bull to which she has been tied was the most difficult problem the filmmakers faced.
		Her romantic lead also serves one of the films climatic moments when the terrified young woman enters the arena tied to the back of wild bull and is saved by a giant of a man who wrestles the bull to the ground and breaks its neck.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/cinema/QV.html (2311 words)

	Quo Vadis (1951 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quo Vadis (the title is Latin, meaning Where are you going?
		), is a 1951 Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman soldier, returning from the wars, who falls in love with a Christian and becomes intrigued by her religion.
		The movie holds a record for the most costumes used in one movie; 32,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quo_Vadis_(1951_movie) (193 words)

	Wyke, Ancient Rome and the traditions of film history
		In such an intellectual climate, books on film by classicists must work to denaturalize the distinction between high and popular culture, and to demonstrate that films with an ancient theme are to be understood as an integral part of a more broadly conceived classical tradition.
		The technicolor of Quo vadis or the wide-screen of Ben-Hur (USA 1959) were similarly hailed by the studios in the rhetoric of historical realism, even if their purpose was more prosaically to combat the attractions of television.
		MGM's Quo vadis replays and reinforces the rhetoric of the Cold War by figuring Stalin as the sadistic, godless Nero, but, through the portrayal on screen of the hounding and suicide of the Roman writer Petronius, it also appears in passing to mourn the repression which constant vigilance against Communism within the US had required.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr0499/mwfr6b.htm (2265 words)

	KODAK: Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel is now a major Polish film - Print Friendly Version
		He never intended that the shots of Rome in the new Polish Quo Vadis would be in the Hollywood style or on the Hollywood scale.
		Quo Vadis was shot on location in Tunisia, France and Poland, but the significantly different light and latitudes caused Jaroszewicz some concern.
		Quo Vadis was made possible by the support of seven co-producers - Kredyt Bank S.A., Telewizja Polska S.A. (Polish Television), HBO, Documentary and Feature Film Studios, Film Production Agency, Kadr Film Studio and Syrena Entertainment Group.
	www.kodak.com /US/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/jan2002/vadisP.shtml (789 words)

	JS Online: Polish 'Quo Vadis' makes Milwaukee debut
		"Quo Vadis," was directed by the 80-year old veteran of Polish cinema Jerzy Kawalerowicz and is in Polish with English subtitles.
		The near three-hour epic is based on the 1895 novel by Henry Sienkiewicz, which combined actual and fictional events and characters for a story set in Rome during the reign of the emperor Nero.
		The book was previously made into a 1951 film directed by Melvyn Leroy and starring Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/movies/feb02/22157.asp (141 words)

	Quo Vadis
		But the real appeal of QUO VADIS is the grand Technicolor spectacle of ancient Rome burning, of pagan orgies, of marching armies, and of man-eating lions.
		The 1912 version was one of the first feature-length films ever made, and few theaters owned projectors capable of playing the eight-reel film.
		MGM originally planned the film to stoar Gregory Peck and Elizabeth Taylor, with John Huston at the helm.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1017021-quo_vadis/about.php (696 words)

	Amazon.com: Quo Vadis (1951) (1951) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Already having been filmed a number of times in the silent era and once again since this 1951 film, this is still the definitive version of the story of the early Christian Church struggling to survive in Nero's Rome after the great fire.
		While "Quo Vadis", in some areas is not always accurate historically the faults are not glaring ones and it does give a vivid picture of the growth of the early Christian movement and the persecution it endured which of course went on long after Nero's death.
		The film is filled with unforgettable images, for example the huge crowd scenes during Marcus' triumpiant entry into Rome, and the burning of the city by Nero which incredibly was done on both full sized and miniature sets.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003OSTV?v=glance (2807 words)

	Quo vadis - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Quo vadis is a Latin phrase meaning "Whither goest thou?" or "Where are you going?" It is used as a proverbial phrase from the Bible (John 16:5).
		Quo Vadis (1900 play) – a Broadway play that opened at the New York Theatre on April 9, 1900.
		Quo Vadis (band) - A Canadian death metal band.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Quo_vadis (388 words)

	Wikinfo \| Quo vadis
		Quo Vadis (1924 movie) - A silent film starring Elga Brink, Rina De Liguoro, Lillian Hall-Davis, Emil Jannings and Elena Sangro.
		Quo Vadis (1985 movie) - A television movie starring Annie Belle, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Frederic Forrest and Francesco Quinn.
		He asked Jesus, "Domine Quo Vadis?", "Lord, where are you going?", and Jesus replied "To Rome to be crucified anew." Upon hearing this, Peter returned to Rome to be crucified upside down.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Quo_vadis (599 words)

	Amazon.com: African Queen / Movie (1952) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But despite this highly unusual pairing, the film was one of the finest that either was ever in, netting Bogart his only Oscar (and unbelievably, only one of three nominations) and Hepburn what was something like her 200th Oscar nomination.
		Today we take filming on location for granted, but in the 1940s and 1950s, few producers and directors opted for filming on the spot upon which the film was supposed to take place.
		What makes the film memorable is how the characters evolve from lonely souls who have given up all hope for happiness in their lives to the heroic defenders of the British Empire whose mutual patriotic dedication turns to love.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630150528X?v=glance (2436 words)

	Quo Vadis The Reel Image Trailers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The stirring score was, written by Miklos Rozsa, just dipping his feet in the water of epic films for the first time.
		It was a very successful film in its time, and this long trailer (but not the longest version produced so I am informed) shows many scenes from the film, including the burning of Rome, and Deborah Kerr at the stake.
		The print is of good though not quite perfect quality, there are signs of damage on the master, and the colour has faded a bit, but the 8mm prints by Cine Magnetics are first class, any slight defects being on the master, and of no real importance.
	www.thereelimage.co.uk /reviews/quovardis/quovadistr.htm (223 words)

	Dr. J's On-Line Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics: Films on Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Includes the films: Hercules, Hercules Unchained, Hercules and the Captive Woman, Medusa vs. the Son of Hercules, Fury of Hercules, Son of Hercules in the Land of Fire, Hercules and the Masked Rider.
		The film adds much psychoanalytic insight to the Sophocles theme; Pasolini's intent was, he said, "to make a kind of completely metaphoric--and therefore mythicized--autobiography; and second, to confront both the problem of psychoanalysis and the problem of the myth." Italian with English subtitles.
		An extraordinarily-rarely seen late film by Rossellini which is his historical treatment of the Greek philosopher Socrates opens in 404 BC after the conquest of Athens by Sparta.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /drjclassics2/files/films.shtm (1300 words)

	GoHastings.com Item Information
		Combined with the stunning score by Miklos Rozsa, QUO VADIS is worth watching simply for the orgy of sound and vision it offers.
		Exact returns remain unkown, but some estimates give the film a worldwide box office of $50 million, which when converted to modern sums makes QUO VADIS one of the most successful pictures in history.
		QUO VADIS is a fabulous saga that dramatizes a decaying Rome under the rule of an insipid, grandiose Nero.
	www.gohastings.com /Catalog/Item/Item.asp?prodid=32990443 (477 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- The New Pictures -- Nov. 19, 1951 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Quo Vadis (MGM) is the costliest movie ever made—$6,500,000* worth of grandeur, violence, faith and fleshpots, glittering with Technicolor and set against the epic clash of Christianity and paganism in Nero's Rome.
		The film has more lions (63) than most movies have actors; its 30,000 extras outnumber the working population of Hollywood; its army of technicians spent 24 days stoking the conflagration of Rome, which burned only nine days for Nero himself.
		For sheer size, opulence and technical razzle-dazzle, Quo Vadis is the year's most impressive cinematic sight-seeing spree.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,857092,00.html (143 words)

	The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television - Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Quo Vadis, set during the reign of mad emperor Nero and the rise of the Christian underground, is a new, very lavish Roman-set epic from the world-famous novel by Polish novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz.
		Though the best known Quo Vadis is arguably Mervyn Leroy's 1951 Hollywood version, with Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr, this Polish-produced film surpasses it in every respect - save perhaps the MGM film's spectacular burning of Rome.
		Directed by 79-year-old Jerzy Kawalerowicz, one of the master filmmakers of Poland's golden era, the new film is a thinking person's epic.
	www.nmpft.org.uk /film/reviewsdetail.asp?film=1921&id=74 (151 words)

	quovadis
		A glossy MGM extravaganza; a Bible film that is more pleasing to watch for its conspicuous opulence than for its dramatics, dialogue, religion or politics.
		They shot the film in Italy, with a cast of thousands.
		It had a lot of spectacular shots, but it was not a particularly moving film experience.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/quovadis.htm (750 words)

	1951 Academy Awards® Winners and History
		The film was about an ex-GI painter who remained in Paris following the war, and became enmeshed in a romantic triangle between a rich American patroness (Nina Foch) and a lovely 19 year-old French dancer (Leslie Caron).
		Quo Vadis had the dubious distinction of not winning in any of the categories in which it was nominated.
		On the Waterfront (1954).] Bogart's win in 1951 was an upset, since it denied the predicted clean-sweep for the cast of A Streetcar Named Desire, and a much-deserved Oscar for Brando.
	www.filmsite.org /aa51.html (1654 words)

	Quo Vadis (1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The water Quo Vadis dives into are excellent for any historical epic: you have persecutions and martyrdoms, the glory of ancient Rome reaching its apex, and a mad emperor who murdered his own mother.
		As with most historical movies of the time, the acting is geared less toward realism and more toward D-R-A-M-A and ostentatious monologues, but, compared to many of the historical 'epics' of today, it has a strong emotional core and a passion for its subject.
		According to Christian legends, both things happened as depicted in the film, although one legend says Peter was crucified upside down at his own request because he did not want to imitate Jesus,not out of an anti-Christian gesture.
	www.coldfusionvideo.com /goodbadugly/quovadis.html (1801 words)

	DVD Movie, VHS Movie & New Dvd Release :: Quo Vadis (1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Quo Vadis?" (1951) was in the middle, not as good as the two first but better than the others.
		The film follows the trials and tribulations of Lygia (Deborah Kerr), a convert to the new faith of Christianity in Nero's pagan Rome.
		Regardless of its propagation of the stereotypical image of a half-witted and artistically challenged Nero, this film is one of the best Roman-biblical films of that period and it isn't excessively dogmatic: it has something to offer for everyone.
	www.ohmydot.com /new_dvd_release/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B00003OSTV (2542 words)

	Flickerings@Cornerstone Festival 2004
		The finished film was part of a program assembled by Edwin S. Porter that included Magic-Lantern slides and a live choir.
		It would be the Italians, appropriately, who were to invent the screen spectacle, no doubt inspired by the ever-present ruins and reminders of ancient glory, and intrigued by the possibilities of cinema in bringing them back to life.
		The title of this film means "Where are you going?" and the question is posed by the Ascended Christ to Peter in a vision as the latter departs Rome on the eve of an Imperial persecution.
	www.flickerings.com /2004/films/jesusmovies/silents1.htm (1066 words)

	Forbes.com: Pitching Graydon Carter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Film executives can't avoid grappling with the source material themselves--and that's problematic, given the yawning cultural gulf between Hollywood and this particular target demographic.
		Quo Vadis fills the bill: a spectacle-friendly Roman setting, an over-the-top villain, a surfeit of death and destruction colorfully rendered.
		"Quo vadis," by the way, is Latin for "where are you going?" All the way to the bank, my friend.
	www.forbes.com /2004/06/08/cx_ml_0608lewis_print.html (1662 words)

	Open Directory - Arts:Movies:Titles:Q (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds, urban life and technology versus the environment.
		Powaqqatsi is the second film of the Qatsi trilogy, and presents an overall focus on natives of the Third World, the emerging cultures, and how they express themselves through work and traditions.
		Naqoyqatsi is the third film of the Qatsi trilogy.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Titles/Q/desc.html (689 words)

	Quo Vadis? (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Unlike the 1951 MGM version, which was a costume epic typical for its time, this new film seems to be about real people caught in the maelstrom that was Nero's Rome, in the struggle between decadent paganism and the emerging new faith of the Christians.
		The movie deserves a much wider audience than it's going to get in the US, because, face it, most people who go see foreign language films are not the same people who go to see religious, historical epics.
		Hollywood would have given this film costlier and better special effects - the burning of Rome is a bit anemic - but Hollywood could not have filmed this movie as honestly, truthfully and brilliantly.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0282108 (442 words)

	Directory - Arts: Movies: Titles: Q: Quo Vadis - 1951 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Epinions.com: Quo Vadis · iweb · cached · Ordinary viewers review and rate the 1951 movie.
		The Reel Image: Quo Vadis · Review of the trailer for the 1951 epic.
		(1951) · iweb · Cast and crew, plot summary, viewer comments and rating, awards and nominations.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=836829 (81 words)

	News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was during this fruitful period in the composer’s life that he wrote the elaborate scores to Quo Vadis (1951), Ben-Hur (1959) and King of Kings (1961), as well as the scores to other epic films such as Ivanhoe (1952), Julius Caesar (1953) and El Cid (1961).
		Late in his career he began rearranging portions of Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis and King of Kings as choral suites, but the project was incomplete at his death.
		The choral suite to Quo Vadis was conceived by Christopher Palmer, compiled and arranged by Julian Kershaw and edited by Erich Kunzel and Joseph D. Price.
	www.cincinnatisymphony.org /Media/releases/RozsaPopsCD.asp (411 words)

	Classical Net Review - Rózsa - Choral Suites
		Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) had a long career as a film composer, and for many, that career reached its apex at MGM with three religious epics: Quo Vadis (1951), Ben-Hur (1959), and King of Kings (1961).
		There's little subtlety, and one could argue that subtlety would have been wasted on these films, which were epics, after all, and not telling psychological portraits of Jesus Christ and His early followers.
		The brief voice-over at the end of Quo Vadis probably will please fans of the film more than it will please those who are looking for a purely musical experience.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/t/tlc80631a.html (345 words)

	Filmpaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A screening of QUO VADIS, required background for the Film Paper, is scheduled for Sunday November 5th, from 1:00 p.m.
		In watching the film you should keep in mind both these historical treatments but also your semester's experience of Roman culture.
		This film is derived from a novel written by a man who was well acquainted with the same historical treatments you have read.
	www.indiana.edu /~leach/c102/filmpaper.html (215 words)

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