Messiah (1999)

Filmmaker William Klein takes on Handel’s Messiah and has created a concert film that mixes the sacred with the profane. Performed in its entirety, the oratorio provides a narrative of Christ’s nativity, passion and resurrection juxtaposed against images of absurdities and abuses against the human species across the world. The film reveals a wide array of worshippers from the Bodybuilders of Christ to the Lavender Light Gay and Lesbian Interracial Choir to the Dallas police choir.

Released Dec. 17, 1999 117 min 11+

Genres: Documentary, Music

Keywords: imdb.las-vegas-nevada, imdb.reference-to-jesus-christ, imdb.oratorio, imdb.resurrection, imdb.prison, imdb.power, imdb.messiah + 4 more, imdb.live-performance, imdb.concert-film, imdb.american, aspectratio.1-66-1