The Bible Collection: Esther

1999

Action / Biography / Drama / History / Romance

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 79%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 1824 1.8K

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Plot summary

Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.

Director

Raffaele Mertes Photo
Raffaele Mertes

Top cast

Ornella Muti Photo
Ornella Muti as Queen Vashti
F. Murray Abraham Photo
F. Murray Abraham as Mordecai
Darren Bransford Photo
Darren Bransford as Nehemia
Umberto Orsini Photo
Umberto Orsini as Memucan
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
835.25 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 7
1.68 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by artyyeo 8 / 10

Accurate and inspiring

The accuracy of the movie is pretty high. Even the dialog has quoted large chunks of the Bible and in many parts, they have attempted to extract and paraphrased many verses. It is quite biblical. I am inspired.Here are the parts which are most inspiring:1) Mordecai wailing in the streets, crying and praying. It depicted a man without any inhibition when it comes to expressing his emotions to God. It was recorded in the Bible and the movie depicted it accurately.2) The emphasis on the 3 days and nights fasting with praying was clearly depicted and was again very inspiring. Many verses from other parts of the Old Testament were quoted in their prayers. It relates fasting with a national catastrophe. 3) In the end, the wooing of the king by Esther was again accurately presented. Through her gutsy courage to appear before the court uninvited and throwing the two banquets for the king and Haman, the final climax was accurately depicted again.The movie, in short, was done to inspire and uplift the viewer spiritually. Well done and God bless!
Reviewed by dguizzetti 8 / 10

Contains a major deviation from scripture.

This is a delightful production albeit a few notches below "Ester the Queen." I am surprised at the previous reviews that extol its Scriptural accuracy since Esther is the one book of Scripture that never mentions G*d by name, while the movie takes profound liberties in having numerous Jews calling on the Lord to save them from extermination and mentioning Him by name.It is indeed irony worthy of G*d that the one book in which He not mentioned by name by the largely apostate Jewish remnant remaining in Persia, that He acts to elevate his people to high positions of trust and authority that eventually save the remnant from extinction.Enjoy this movie and be sure to hiss at every mention of Haman's name.
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