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Status
Released
Release
1965
Runtime
1h 52m
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"A story of endurance, savagery and heroism"
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
27 Cast Members
Horst Buchholz
Marco Polo
Anthony Quinn
Kublai Khan
Orson Welles
Akerman, Marco's Teacher
Bruno Cremer
Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar
Omar Sharif
Sheik Alla Hou
Robert Hossein
Prince Nayam
Akim Tamiroff
The Old Man of the Mountain
Elsa Martinelli
The Woman with the Whip
Grégoire Aslan
Achmed Abdullah
Massimo Girotti
Nicolo, Marco's Father
Folco Lulli
Spinello, Venetian Merchant
Guido Alberti
Pope Gregory X
Jacques Monod
Nicolo de Vicenza, a Knight Templar
Miloje 'Mića' Orlović
Matteo, Marco's Uncle
Lynne Sue Moon
Princess Gogatine
Maria Virginia Onorato
Alaou's Wife
Mansoureh Rihai
Taha
Michel Bouquet
Narrator (uncredited)
Dragomir Felba
(uncredited)
Andrej Gardenin
Fencer (uncredited)
