
Godspell
- G
- 1973
- 1 hr 42 min
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6.5 (3,133)
A musical and a slightly whimsical modern-day version of the gospels in the Bible. Starting with the book of Matthew, it opens with John the Baptist calling a contrasting group of young men and women in New York from their workaday lives to come and follow, and learn from Jesus. This group of people become a roving acting troupe. This group of men enact these famous parables through song and dance, also through comedy, and mime. Many of the scenes take place in well-known sites in New York, which are mostly empty. It all comes to a head and ends with Jesus' ministry and with a last supper. Also depicts his Crucifixion in a junkyard. The film ends with a scene the following morning, with Christ's dead body being carried aloft by his apostles back into the world of the living on the streets of New York