Paul, Apostle of Christ [Blu-ray + DVD]

Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
0043396527355 
Category
Drama BD & DVD  [ Browse Items ]
Pages
1h 48m 
Abstract
Luke risks his life to visit Paul, who is captive in a Roman prison under Nero's rule. Together, they struggle against a determined emperor and the frailties of the human spirit to live out the Gospel and spread the message to the world.

MPAA Rated PG-13 for some violent content and disturbing images. 
Description
Roma, 67 AD. After the great fire that burnt a great part of the city, Emperor Nero points Paul, Jesus' apostle, as guilty of the fire, arresting him and taking him to Mamertine Prison. There prefect Mauritius struggles between his daughter Caelia, who suffers an unknown disease, and his job as warden of the prison commanded by own Nero, that he is considers as a failure on his military carrier. Despite the risks for the Christians, physician and medicine man Luke arrives Roma from Greek Islands to find Paul, living in the house of Aquila and Priscilla, two former Romans turned in Christians that they use their home as shelter for others Roman Christians to save them from Nero's soldiers, who kill all Christians they find, torturing and using them as human candles to light Roma's streets at night. After realizing that Paul is in Mamertine, Luke get access to the jail and he meets Paul, who accepts Luke's request to tell his biography to be known before he is executed by Nero, writing it in a new book about Gospel and Jesus' teachings. Meanwhile Luke writes detailing the beginnings of "The Way" and the birth of what will come to be known as the church, a bound on chains Paul fights the inner demons of his remembers as survivor of much-floggings, shipwreck, starvation, stoning, hunger and thirst, cold and exposure-yet, waiting for his appointment with death and haunted by the shadows of his violent past, wondering if he has been forgotten and if he has the strength to finish well. Mauritius, discovering Luke's intrusion, tries use it to earn Nero's favor in the belief that Paul will confess to be who burnt Roma. Intrigued by Luke, Mauritius permits more meetings between Luke and Paul to disgust of Mauritius' wife Irenica, who lives in eternal suffering by Caelia's ill. Due to the increase of violence by a young Christians looking for vengeance, Priscilla and Aquila doubt to leave Roma with the people saved or stay to save more Romans, at the same time that Luke's life and his efforts for the book endangers by Mauritius' ambitions. With time running out, Luke faces his destiny, that not only will changes everything around him, too around the world. 
Biblio Notes
Top Cast

Jim Caviezel as Luke
James Faulkner as Paul
Olivier Martinez as Mauritius Gallas
Joanne Whalley as Priscilla
John Lynch as Aquila
Yorgos Karamihos as Saul of Tarsus
Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Irenica
Alessandro Sperduti as Cassius
Alessandra Gaia Williams as Octavia (as a different name)
Manuel Cauchi as Ananias
Noah Huntley as Publius
Kenneth Spiteri as Eubulus
Anthony Edridge as Severus
André Agius as Stephen (as Andre Agius)
John-Paul Pace as Christian Man
Erica Muscat as Christian Woman
Jacob Daniel Groth as Young Christian Man (as Jacob Groth)
Henry Holland as Young Saul of Tarsus  
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