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Status
Released
Release
2013
Runtime
1h 35m
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In documentary style, Al Pacino tells the story of how he came to stage a production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé. He travels to the Mojave Desert ("dessert?"), to Ireland and the United Kingdom to show who Wilde was as a private person and as a writer.
23 Cast Members
Al Pacino
Self / King Herod
Jessica Chastain
Self / Salomé
Kevin Anderson
Self / John the Baptist
Roxanne Hart
Self / Herodias
Estelle Parsons
Self
Barry Navidi
Self
Tony Kushner
Self
Tom Stoppard
Self
Gore Vidal
Self
Bono
Self
Francesca De Sapio
Self
Lucila Solá
Self
Jason Trevits
Self
Kat Fairaway
Self / Kings Slave
Joe Roseto
Self / The Young Syrian / Narraboth / Captain of the Guard
Steve Roman
Self / Cappadocian
Jack Stehlin
Self / Nazarene / Jewish Leader
Osman Soykut
King Herod / Desert Sequence
Geoffrey Owens
Self / Tigellinus
Jack Huston
Lord Alfred
