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Marco Polo

  • Year: 1982
  • Genre: Drama / History
  • Language: English
  • Format: Pal/colour

Synopsis

This seven hours and thirty minutes epic was first broadcast in 1982, a double Emmy award winning epic adventure including ‘Outstanding Series', cost a staggering ten million dollars and featured an all-star, Oscar winning cast: 

Burt Lancaster
John Gielgud
Denholm Elliot
Anne Bancroft
Ken Marshall
David Warner
Ian McShane
Patrick Mower
Leonard Nimoy
F. Abrahem Murray
John Houseman

Filmed on location in Italy, Morocco, Nepal and China this lavish mini-series was the first Western production to film in China after WWII and took over thirteen months to complete. An epic in every sense of the word.

Music score by Ennio Morricone

Four DVD set

Born in Venice in 1254, Marco Polo was just 17 when he set off with his father and uncle to travel the Silk Road to China. Their adventurous journey through Asia, which lasted three and half years, took them through uncharted territory and went down in history as one of the greatest exploratory journeys of all time.

Marco then spent 17 years in Peking as the guest of the Great Khan, winning the trust and respect of the Emperor for whom he carried out various diplomatic missions. Marco took great care to understand and record the culture, language, traditions and customs of the people he met during his long travels and as a result became one of history's legendary explorers.

This remarkable epic feature is released for the first time in 27 years on DVD and is a spectacle to behold, a true masterpiece.

Available to buy: DVD: 15/09/2008

Director

  • Giuliano Montaldo (Time To Kill)

Cast

  • Ken Marshall (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
  • Denholm Elliott (A Room With A View, Trading Places, Raiders Of The Lost Ark)
  • Ian Mcshane (Deadwood, American Gods)
  • Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek)
  • Anne Bancroft (The Graduate, Great Expectations)
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