Word: christs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must Die. Jules Dassin (Rififi) has made a magnificent cinema-daptation of The Greek Passion, Nikos Kazantzakis' novel about a modern imitation of Christ (see below...
...picture is based on The Greek Passion, a novel of spiritual ideas and earthy instances (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954), in which Nikos Kazantzakis retold the story of Christ's Passion as a modern occasion. The scene is set in a Greek village that has grown rich and careful under the tolerant Turkish dominion. As the story begins, everybody in town crowds into the tiny church to hear the priest appoint the leading parts in a Passion play,* to be presented on the following Easter. The choices are almost too shrewd. Mary Magdalen is the village whore. Judas...
Nineteen hundred years after Christ was crucified outside Jerusalem, a Mexican child whose father was a man named José and whose mother was called Maria de Jesús was born in a mulecart at Tepoztlán, an Indian village between the capital and Cuernavaca. His mother had him christened Manuel...
...novelist Coccioli's Mexico, pageantry of gods and devils makes a public matter of the dramas of the heart, and Christ must compete with old idols. In a thousand villages the Aztec gods-whose shrines were toppled by the conquistadors -are remembered by the defeated. Ancient drums as well as bells sound from the church tops. In such a world. Manuel the Mexican came naturally by his belief that Tepozteco, lord of his race, was also Christ, and that Tonantzin, the Aztec Virgin, was also Christ's mother...
...meets his John the Baptist, a peddler named Guadalupe, a fanatical Cristero veteran of Mexico's religious wars. They wander among shrines and through deserts until the boy becomes convinced that it is his destiny to unite in his person Christ and the Lord Tepozteco. The Passion play of Tlaltenalco gives him his opportunity, and he enters the village on Palm Sunday, riding a Chevrolet...