Jesus of Nazareth: Part One

Director Franco Zeffirelli speaking about his contribution to Jesus of Nazerath 'With 'JESUS OF NAZARETH; we are telling the story, not merely as Christian "legend", but painted as a giant tapestry about a whole epoch that revolves around this extraordinary man, in particular, we are focusing on one point which I feel is terribly important, that Jesus was first and foremost a jew. "Christianity came after Jesus. Of course we all know that, but I want to stress the point. So long as Jesus was living, his religon and that of his people was the Jewish faith. In other words, the drama I want to tell and bring to the attention of the audience is the drama of their long wait for the coming of the Messiah. All this is determining factor in the life of Jesus Christ's great idea which Saint Paul put later in practice was that - the Word of God - should be spread throughout the world because it was the most perfect law Christ wanted the Word to reach the whole world, not just the Hebrew tribes". © ITC