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Save for Judas, those named for the Passion play sympathize with these outcasts. Manolios, the shepherd playing Jesus, finally leads the town to revolt against its leaders. Their revolt soon deflates, however, and they join their pope in a battle against the exiles which forces the Turkish Agha to deliver Manolios to death at the hands of his townspeople. Shocked by the crime, townsmen begin to join the exiles against the Turks...
Ultimately, the story revolves around Manolios' effect on other people. With such a subject, the best description is indirect. Beside the dramatic use of crowds, Dassin traces individual characters. Although the entire cast performs laudably, the roles of Mary Magdelan and that of the Turkish Agha deserve special note, both for themselves and for the skill with which they are filled. The former experiences fully and convincingly the joys of virtue and of vice; the latter commits himself to detachment. Were his portrait drawn with less sympathy, a criticism of the Turk's detachment might be the biggest single answer...
...Development and Resources Corp. founded by former TVA Chiefs David Lilienthal and Gordon Clapp, to work on plans for a $5 million dam, a 375,000-acre irrigation project, a sugar mill and refinery, Iran's first major electric transmission line, and a gas pipeline from the Agha Jari oilfield...
Lycovrissi soon has its own troubles. The town is ruled by a Turkish governor called the Agha, and the Agha is ruled by pleasure, good food, good drink, his waterpipe, and above all, his young boy paramour. When the boy is found murdered, the Agha threatens to hang every Greek in the village. The town trembles, tries to pin the crime on the Judas actor...
Novelist Kazantzakis carries his story to its inexorable end, through the betrayal of Manolios and his questioning by the Agha to his grisly death before the high altar of the village church. When the body of Manolios is given to his friends, one murmurs: "In vain, my Christ, in vain . . . two thousand years have gone by and men crucify You still. When will You be born, my Christ, and not be crucified anymore, but live among us for eternity...