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The Bible - Genesis |  | Director: Ermanno Olmi
Actors: Annabi Abdelialil, Omero Antonutti, Sabir Aziz, B. Haddan Mohammed, Paul Scofield
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 80622
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: VM7459D
ISBN: 1573629936
UPC: 031398745921
EAN: 9781573629935
ASIN: B00004VVP0
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
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This film based on the Bible's book of Genesis is something akin to a dramatic reading with visuals. The text of Genesis is read by a narrator, who at times appears as an elderly desert nomad telling the story to a small boy and other members of their extended Bedouin family. These presentations make historical sense, of course, as the biblical tales were passed along as oral history for generations. During the story of the creation of the heaven and the earth, the visuals tend toward nature photography alternated with scenes of the venerable storyteller, but during later episodes, actors play some of the characters from the Bible. A story of Adam and Eve is dramatized in a film montage, as are the stories of Cain and Abel. More inventive cinematography, utilizing modern clips of warfare and destruction, are used to illustrate some Old Testament pronouncements about the evils practiced by mankind. Noah's instruction to build the ark is portrayed, and in an elaborate segment, the building of the ark and its use during the great flood is shown. This film may not provide any new insights into the stories of Genesis, but the dramatizations coupled with the readings from the text are often beautifully filmed, and those interested in experiencing the visual atmosphere of the biblical stories will enjoy the presentation. --Robert J. McNamara
Product Description
The story of Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Able, and Noah as told by an old nomad shepherd.
Genre: Religion
Rating: NR
Release Date: 21-SEP-2004
Media Type: DVD
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 Outstanding meditation on the first 9 chapters of the Bible May 2, 2002
Emmanuel Bornhauser (Union City, New Jersey United States)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Very personal presentation of the biblical account of the creation and the flood by Ermanno Olmi, the acclaimed director of "The Tree of Wooden Clogs." Boring only for those who have no poetic sense whatever! The above average artistic refinement (from the visuals -stunning not to say more- to the very choice of the music) and spiritual depths of the movie will disconcert some. But the movie is a masterpiece. Slow? Yes. Meditative? Yes. Is it a sin? No. It's a hommage. And what a hommage! The spectator is called to make the biblical account his own. Comparing that movie with other biblical stories on characters such as Solomon, Esther or Jeremiah misses the point. Any movie director that would treat the first chapters of Genesis like just another story (although extraordinary) would fail to do justive to its true nature. The Book of Genesis is a spiritual monument -not a historical book, like the Book of Samuel or the Book of Kings. It doesn't mean nothing of it happened. It did happen. Creation is part of history. But the biblical author here does not provide us so much with a word for word description of how things happened than help us understand God's loving providence at work in His creation. Not only does John Huston's litteral treatment of Eve handing the apple over to Adam (in "The Bible," his 1996 version of the Book of Genesis) add nothing to the text. It is purely anecdotic. It has nothing to do with us. The existential (and spiritual) tragedy of sin is totally eclipsed. No action movie will ever capture what goes on deep within man's heart (and soul) each time man turns his back on the one who made him. In other words, the purpose of the biblical creation account is not scientific (HOW the world was made) but theological (WHY the world was made.) God made the world out of love. The world is beautiful because, as St John himself wrote, "God is love." Ermanno Olmi's movie does justice to the biblical account precisely because it reveals to us something of the primeval beauty of the world as it came out from the hands of its creator. Anyone dismayed by the hyperkinetic emptiness of summertime film spectacles will find the spiritual antidote in this quiet but colorful, richly textured movie.
The Bible - Genesis October 15, 2009
Michael A. Pogozelec, Jr. (Pulaski, Pa)
I got this movie in the set I bought a couple of years ago and didn't watch it all that time because I thought the negative reviews indicated I wouldn't like the movie either. However, I found the movie to be a very reverent telling of the first few chapters of Genesis.
I thought that it portrayed well how the O.T. was likely transmitted orally before it was recorded.
I was moved at the respect the people had for their patriarch as he shared the word of God with them.
The music and cinematography were very moving.
I would like to have the kind of peace in my life that those people portrayed; and it seemed that God's word was first on their list of priorities.
Jeremias December 31, 2000
carlos pappe (Hialeah, Florida United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This story is the most beatifull, and shows everything about the Gospell
Missing the Sublime October 5, 2006
James G. Poulos
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The deluge of actions pact stories makes us miss the sublime. That is the case in this film. The film works at capturing the ugliness of sin and the sublime beauty of the Word of the Lord. Give it a chance.
Solomon December 31, 2000
carlos pappe (Hialeah, Florida United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Los 4 Dvd que componen esta serie- Genesis, Esther. Solomon jeremiah Son las mas tiernas historias de la Biblia contadas en toda su verdad. recomiendo 5 estrellas.
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