I dieci comandamenti

Titolo originale: The Ten Commandments
Regia: Cecil B. DeMille |
Anno: 1956
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Storia
Tag: epic | egypt | israel | moses | ten commandments | christianity | slavery | miracle | bible | judaism | religion | ancient egypt | technicolor | old testament | pharaoh | passover | christian film | 13th century bc | biblical epic |
Cast: Charlton Heston | Yul Brynner | Anne Baxter | Edward G. Robinson | Yvonne De Carlo | Debra Paget | John Derek | Cedric Hardwicke | Nina Foch | Martha Scott | Judith Anderson | Vincent Price | John Carradine | Olive Deering | Douglass Dumbrille | Frank De Kova | Henry Wilcoxon | Eduard Franz | Donald Curtis | Lawrence Dobkin | H.B. Warner | Julia Faye | Lisa Mitchell | Noelle Williams | Joanna Merlin | Pat Richard | Joyce van der Veen | Diane Hall | Abbas El Boughdadly | Fraser Clarke Heston | John Miljan | Francis McDonald | Ian Keith | Paul De Rolf | Woody Strode | Tommy Duran | Eugene Mazzola | Ramsay Hill | Joan Woodbury | Esther Brown | Rushdy Abaza | Dorothy Adams | Eric Alden | E.J. André | Babette Bain | Baynes Barron | Kay Bell | Mary Benoit | Henry Brandon | Robert Carson | Bobby Clark | Rus Conklin | Mike Connors | Henry Corden | Edna Mae Cooper | Kem Dibbs | Maude Fealy | Mimi Gibson | Gavin Gordon | Diane Gump | Nancy Hale | June Jocelyn | Richard Kean | Gail Kobe | Fred Kohler Jr. | Kenneth MacDonald | Peter Mamakos | Irene Martin | George Melford | John Merton | Amena Mohamed | Paula Morgan | Dorothy Neumann | John Parrish | Rodd Redwing | Addison Richards | Keith Richards | Hal Sherman | Marcoreta Starr | Onslow Stevens | Clint Walker | Amanda Webb | Frank Wilcox | Jeane Wood | Luis Alberni | Lillian Albertson | Barbara Aler | Michael Ansara | William Bagdad | Arthur Batanides | Polly Burson | Lesley-Marie Colburn | Fairy Cunningham | Cecil B. DeMille | Richard Farnsworth | Frank Hagney | Kay Hammond | John Hart | Bob Herron | Madeleine Taylor Holmes | Rex Ingram | Mary Ellen Kay | Charlotte Knight | Norman Leavitt | Emmett Lynn | Herbert Lytton | Nico Minardos | Steve Mitchell | Ron Nyman | Charles Stevens | Carl Switzer | Robert Vaughn | Alan Wells | Paul Wexler |

Scampato alla strage dei primogeniti ebrei, il piccolo Mosè viene allevato come un vero egiziano, ma quando scopre le sue origini rinuncia a tutto per condividere le sofferenze del suo popolo. Ma solo dopo l'invio delle terribili sette piaghe il faraone accetta di lasciarli partire. Più tardi, pentitosi di aver ceduto, li insegue con il suo esercito, ma viene inghiottito dal Mar Rosso. Mosé, dopo aver ricevuto le tavole della Legge, muore, ormai vecchio, vedendo soltanto da lontano la Terra Promessa. Il film è diventato l'esempio per eccellenza dei kolossal. Particolarmente sontuosi, per l'epoca, gli effetti speciali (premiati con l'Oscar) e l'uso che De Mille fa del Cinemascope.

Frasi

First High Priest: Divine one, last night, our ast [...] D
Nefretiri: If you want to help your people, come b [...] D
Sethi: Let the name of Moses be stricken from ever [...] D
Moses: [Jethro's daughters are trying to pour wate [...] D
Sethi: The man best able to rule Egypt will follow [...] D
Dathan: Joshua's strength didn't kill the master b [...] D
Moses: [just after Moses defended himself, against [...] D
Baka: [after Baka got Lilia cleaned] No, no, no, n [...] D
Rameses: No, Moses. It is I who will possess all o [...] D
Rameses: [to Nefretiri] Did you lose your head, my [...] D
Joshua: They told me you were dead. Lilia: To all [...] D
Baka: They use the old ones to do the work of grea [...] D
Moses: From the burning bush, O Lord... you charge [...] D
Moses: That's a hard dance you do, old man. Simon [...] D
Fan Bearer: What gifts do you bring? Moses: We br [...] D
Bithiah: Will the life she gave you be more useful [...] D
Moses: The Lord of Hosts will do battle for us. Be [...] D
Rameses: [to Nefretiri] You are going to be mine, [...] D
Lilia: [singing] Death cometh to me, to set me fre [...] D
Sethi: Harden yourself against subordinates. Have [...] D
Dathan: For ten talents of gold, I'll give you the [...] D
Moses: [to Sethi, after Sethi came to see Moses co [...] D
Dathan: There are those who would pay much for wha [...] D
Moses: It would take more than a man to lead the s [...] D
Moses: You know it is death to strike an Egyptian? [...] D
Bithiah: Moses, do not enter! There is only sorrow [...] D
Narrator: Ladies and gentlemen, young and old, thi [...] D
Nefretiri: [Nefretiri is sorting through various v [...] D
Moses: Let my people go! D
Jethro's daughter: Is it true that Egyptian girls [...] D
Moses: [to Sethi] Your wish is my will. D
Joshua: God of Abraham, four hundred years we have [...] D
Moses: Blasphemers! Idolaters! For this, you shall [...] D
Nefretiri: But I have saved your son, Moses. Mose [...] D
Bithiah: [just after Bithiah drew Infant Moses, of [...] D
Rameses: Let him rave on, that men will know him m [...] D
Moses: There is a beauty beyond the senses, Nefret [...] D
Moses: [in a loud, commanding voice] After this da [...] D
Dathan: Now look for the first time, Abiram, upon [...] D
Trojan Ambassador: Great Pharaoh, the gift of Troy [...] D
Dathan: Moses has words. Pharaoh has spears! D
Jethro's daughter: [Sephora saw Moses, asleep and [...] D
Moses: Do they love less who have no hope? D
Yochabel: Why have you come here? Bithiah: Becaus [...] D
Moses: [to Jethro's daughters, as they were washin [...] D
Bithiah: A conquerer, already conquered? Moses: T [...] D
Moses: Does your god live on this mountain? Sepho [...] D
[Moses and Aaron go into Pharoah's throne and orde [...] D
Lilia: You are strange to the pits. Your back is u [...] D
Yochabel: God of Abraham, take my child into Thy h [...] D
[Nefretiri and Sephora look upon one another for t [...] D
Bithiah: They're going away, Moses, and the secret [...] D
Egyptian soldier: Out! Out, all of you! Dathan: W [...] D
Moses: [Moses opened the door, after Bithiah knock [...] D
Wazir: What kingdom has sent you? Moses: The King [...] D
[last lines] Moses: Go, proclaim liberty througho [...] D
Moses: Would you bury the old woman alive in a tom [...] D
Joshua: Here! Water lily! Lilia: My name is Lilia [...] D
Moses: I'll not leave a man to die in the mud. Si [...] D
Bithiah: [throwing a lotus flower] Catch a lotus a [...] D
Sephora: I do not know about such things, but I do [...] D
Dathan: Remember, Joshua, of her own free will, sh [...] D
Narrator: Learning that it can be more terrible to [...] D
Rameses: Let him rave on, that men shall know him [...] D
Moses: [to Nefretiri] Yes. You may be the lovely d [...] D
Nefretiri: Did you think my kiss was a promise of [...] D
Jethro: You have come far. Moses: From Egypt. Je [...] D
Lilia: Water, Noble One? Baka: No, wine... the wi [...] D
Sephora: Which of my sisters did you choose? Mose [...] D
Dathan: [pulling his cart through the parted Red S [...] D
Rameses: [to Dathan, as he bribes Rameses] Do you [...] D
Nefretiri: You need have no fear of me. Sephora: [...] D
Nefretiri: You will be king of Egypt, and I will b [...] D
Little Boy: The wind opens the sea! The Blind One [...] D
Joshua: Let the old woman loose! Egyptian guard: [...] D
[the 'stick to cobra' combat had just occurred] M [...] D
Nefretiri: Don't exhaust yourself, Great One. Dear [...] D
Nefretiri: Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendi [...] D
Joshua: Praise God, I have found you. Moses: Josh [...] D
[after nine of the ten plagues curse Egypt, Moses [...] D
[scene of the Burning Bush] Moses: Moses. Moses. [...] D
Lilia: Joshua! Joshua: Run, Lilia, run! The way i [...] D
Bithiah: They will stop for me! Mered: A charging [...] D
Nefretiri: [Moses was just called back, from Hebre [...] D
Joshua: Did He speak? Moses: He revealed His word [...] D
Moses: Will you swear in the name of this God that [...] D
Gershom: [Moses and Sephora are now parents] Did t [...] D
Bithiah: Moses, what will you do? Moses: [holds h [...] D
Bithiah: I am the Pharaoh's daughter, and this is [...] D
Rameses: His god - IS God. [Rameses' last line, a [...] D
Bithiah: [wades in the Nile and notices Moses' bas [...] D
Rameses: Now speaks the rat that would be my ears. [...] D
Moses: What has this child to do with me? Tell me. [...] D
Baka: Will you lose a throne because Moses builds [...] D
Rameses: [banishing Moses to the desert] Here is y [...] D
Memnet: What have you found? Bithiah: The answer [...] D
Tuya: Oh, Memnet, you're only happy when you're mi [...] D
Moses: No son could have more love for you than I. [...] D
Lilia: Dathan, if you fear God, let me go. Dathan [...] D
Nefretiri: [Nefreteri handed Rameses a sword as he [...] D
[during the plague of the death of Egypt's firstbo [...] D
Rameses: Why do you bring this worker of evil befo [...] D
Bithiah: Your tongue will dig your grave, Memnet! [...] D
Nefretiri: [approaches Rameses as he is praying to [...] D
Shieks: [in Jethro's tent, Sephora's six sisters d [...] D
Yochabel: [Yochabel's last line, were said in deep [...] D
[Opening line and sentences as movie started] Nar [...] D
Nefretiri: I think I see him. No... Moses. D
Sethi: With so many slaves, you could build an arm [...] D
Rameses: You have rats' ears and a ferret's nose. [...] D
Pentaur: He opens the waters before them, and he b [...] D
Dathan: Where could I bring you except to Egypt? [...] D
Lilia: Joshua. We must have hope. God will send us [...] D
Moses: Great one, I bring you Ethiopia. [Trumpets [...] D
Nefretiri: Does the world bow to an empty throne? [...] D
Nefretiri: Oh, Moses, Moses, why of all men did I [...] D