Joseph (1995) (TV)

Director:

Roger Young

Writers (WGA):

James Carrington (earlier teleplay)
Lionel Chetwynd (teleplay)

Release Date:

16 April 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama

Plot:

The Biblical story of Joseph, who was sold to slavery by his brothers who were jealous of his prophetic...

Plot Keywords:

Brother | Egypt | Pharaoh | Dream | Slave

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 5 nominations

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Ben Kingsley	...	Potiphar
Paul Mercurio	...	Joseph
Martin Landau	...	Jacob
Lesley Ann Warren	...	Potiphar's Wife
Alice Krige	...	Rachel
Dominique Sanda	...	Leah
Warren Clarke	...	Ednan
Monica Bellucci	...	Pharaoh's Wife
Stefano Dionisi	...	Pharaoh
Valeria Cavalli	...	Asenath
Kelly Miller	...	Tamar
Gloria Carlin	...	Bilah
Michael Angelis	...	Reuben
Vincenzo Nicoli	...	Simeon
Colin Bruce	...	Levi

Also Known As:

Die Bibel: Josef (Germany)
Joseph in Egypt (UK)
The Bible: Joseph

Runtime:

Germany:178 min (miniseries version) | USA:185 min (miniseries version)

Country:

Italy | USA | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M | Germany:6

Filming Locations:

Morocco

Company:

Beta Film

Quotes:

Simeon: Come to save him, have you?
Reuben: I won't have the boy's blood on my hands.
Judah: It's too late for that now.

Movie Connections:

Follows Abraham (1994) (TV)

A great story from the Bible!

The story of Joseph and his brothers is one of the most impressing and rich of significance stories amongst the many others great legends from the Bible. Even the Nobel Prize winner - German author Thomas Mann - wrote a novel called 'Joseph and his Brothers' giving his personal interpretation of this intense, gripping and compassionate episode of the Bible. However, the cinema never pays much attention to this story. In fact, anyone can easily remember movies like 'The Ten Commandments' which tells the adventure of Moses in his search for the Promised Land or 'Sanson and Dellila'. But the drama of the betrayed Joseph, his suffer among the Egyptians and his conquer of power and fortune, was never at the first line of consideration by the producers of Hollywood. This movie, produced in Italy, bring to us this entranced story with an average success. The movie is a bit overlong (180 min) but never boring; the sets and costumes are accurate and the movie has a great photograph. Martin Landau gives a convinced performance as Jacob, Ben Kingsley is correct as Potifar but Paul Mercurio is very bad as Joseph. Maybe another actor with more intensity could give more strenght and energy to the movie. Anyway, if you find this one in a DVD/VHS rent store and if you like Biblical movies, don't lose this one. It's really worthwhile.