The Agony and the Ecstasy

(1965)

138 minutes

Biography / Drama / Epic

Directed by Carol Reed

Cast:

Charlton Heston as Michelangelo
Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II
Diane Cilento as Contessina de'Medici
Harry Andrews as Bramante
Alberto Lupo as Duke of Urbino
Adolfo Celi as Giovanni de' Medici
Venantino Venantini as Paris De Grassis
John Stacy as Sangallo
Fausto Tozzi as Foreman
Maxine Audley as Woman
Tomas Milian as Raphael

The Agony and the Ecstasy trailer

Pope Julius is excited to finish the work in which he will be remembered for.  He keeps pestering Michelangelo to work harder and faster on the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican in Rome.