Marco Polo (TV miniseries)

Marco Polo
Genre	Drama, History
Written by	David Butler Vincenzo Labella Giuliano Montaldo
Directed by	Giuliano Montaldo
Starring	Ken Marshall Denholm Elliott Tony Vogel F. Murray Abraham Anne Bancroft John Gielgud John Houseman Burt Lancaster Tony Lo Bianco Ian McShane Leonard Nimoy David Warner James Hong Ying Ruocheng
Composer(s)	Ennio Morricone
Country of origin	United States  Italy
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	4
Production
Executive producer(s)	Giovanni Bertolucci Franco Cristaldi Vincenzo Labella
Producer(s)	Vincenzo Labella
Editor(s)	John A. Martinelli
Location(s)	China Italy Mongolia Morocco
Cinematography	Pasqualino De Santis
Running time	480 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC RAI
Picture format	Film
Audio format	Monaural
Original airing	May 16, 1982 December 5, 1982

Marco Polo is an American-Italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States, by Antenne 2 in France and by RAI in Italy in 1982. It starred Ken Marshall as Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer. The series also featured appearances by Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy, and others. It was originally broadcast in four episodes, where episodes 1 and 4 were twice as long as episodes 2 and 3. The series is sometimes divided into six equally long episodes.

Cast

• Ken Marshall as Marco Polo
• Denholm Elliott as Niccolò Polo
• Tony Vogel as Matteo Polo
• David Warner as Rustichello da Pisa
• Burt Lancaster as Pope Gregory X
• Vernon Dobtcheff as Pietro d'Abano
• John Gielgud as Doge of Venice
• John Houseman as Patriarch of Aquileia
• F. Murray Abraham as Jacopo
• Anne Bancroft as Marco's Mother
• James Hong as Phags-pa
• Ian McShane as Ali Ben Yussouf
• Leonard Nimoy as Achmet
• Mario Adorf as Giovanni
• Patrick Mower as Brother Damian
• Tony Lo Bianco as Brother Nicholas
• Ying Ruocheng as Kublai Khan
• Junichi Ishida as Prince Chinkin
• Tetsurō Tamba as Saiamon
• Gordon Mitchell as Arnolfo
• Sada Thompson as Aunt Flora
• Soon-Tek Oh as Wang Zhu

See also

• List of historical drama films
• List of historical drama films of Asia

External links

• Marco Polo at the Internet Movie Database
• Marco Polo at TV.com

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