Solomon and sheba movie with yul brynner
Solomon and sheba movie with yul brynner
Solomon and sheba story.
Solomon and Sheba
1959 film
For the Halle Berry film, see Solomon & Sheba (1995 film).
Solomon and Sheba is a 1959 American epichistoricalromance film directed by King Vidor, shot in Technirama (color by Technicolor), and distributed by United Artists.[3] The film dramatizes events described in The Bible—the tenth chapter of First Kings and the ninth chapter of Second Chronicles.
It starred Yul Brynner as Solomon and Gina Lollobrigida as Sheba; and features George Sanders as Adonijah, Marisa Pavan as Abishag, and David Farrar as the Pharaoh. The screenplay by Anthony Veiller, Paul Dudley, and George Bruce, was based on a story by Crane Wilbur.[4] In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career.[5]
Plot
The film's theme differs substantially from Biblical sources and is highly fictionalized, most notably in representing the Queen of Sheba a