by Dennis Potter
with Colin Blakely as Jesus, Robert Hardy as Pontius Pilate, Bernard Hepton as Caiaphas
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This play is about Jesus the man; it is also about the religious, political, and military climate in which he lived.
Jerusalem is expecting a Messiah. The occupying Romans, under Pontius Pilate, put down religious fanatics and their followers with brutality. It is a time of change and of violence - not entirely unlike today.
The play sees Jesus very much as a man; a man capable of friendship and of anger, of doubt and of laughter. He is a man haunted by the question 'Am I indeed the Messiah?'; by his knowledge of his fate, 'They shall nail him upon the Cross'; and yet hounded by an inner conviction of his mission.