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Messiah

Messiah

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 17, 1999

Runtime

1h 57m

Genres

Music, Documentary

User Score

80%

Original Title

Messiah

Production Companies

Kuiv Productions, France 2 Cinéma

Director

William Klein

Description

Filmmaker William Klein takes on Handel’s Messiah and has created a concert film that mixes the sacred with the profane. Performed in its entirety, the oratorio provides a narrative of Christ’s nativity, passion and resurrection juxtaposed against images of absurdities and abuses against the human species across the world. The film reveals a wide array of worshippers from the Bodybuilders of Christ to the Lavender Light Gay and Lesbian Interracial Choir to the Dallas police choir.