Barabbas [videorecording].
- [S.l] : Columbia Pictures Industries Inc, c1989.
- 1 videodisc (137 mins.)
- The bible stories .
Two-time Academy Award winner Anthony Quinn (Best Actor in a supporting role, Lust for LIfe, 1956, and Viva Zapata, 1952) stars as Barabbas in this fictional account based on a fascinating New Testament passage. When Pontius PIlate asks the people of Jerusalem whom they wanted freed, the thief and murderer Barabbas or Jesus of Nazreth, the people cry out for Barabbas. And though he is set free, the event is one that haunts Barabbas for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulfur mines and then to the gladiator school where he witnesses ye another friend giving his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas himself faces crucifixion, that he discovers his faith.