The 3 year public life and preaching of Jesus as presented in this miniseries. Jesus is a white guy with deep piercing blue eyes. The large cast is made up of a bunch of Hollywood and English movie stars. The miniseries is very long. All of the above points were major criticisms of George Steven's The Greatest Story Ever Told. However this film got good reviews, go figure.
Robert Powell plays Jesus with a lot of soft spoken sincerity but at times kind of comes off as a creepy cult leader. He speaks in the usual biblical platitudes probably more a fault of everyone having to hear the same New Testament stories over and over in Sunday school
The director Franco Zeffirelli moves along from one biblical event to the next. We get the feeding of the crowd with the loafs and fishes, casting out the money changers from the temple, the last supper etc.
Jesus of Nazareth is not without of it's good points but it's a long slow crawl to get to the resurrection. Frankly this miniseries is pretty boring.
Besides Zeffirelli the writers included Anthony Burgess and Suso Cecchi d'Amico, The film comes in at a whopping 374 minutes.
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