Roberto Rossellini - Il Messia AKA The Messiah (1975)

IL MESSIA (1976) was Roberto Rossellini's last feature film: the life of Christ, which he would have followed with a film about Karl Marx,had death not intervened.  Commissioned and financed by FamilyTheater(U.S.), Il Messia was shot in Tunisia with everyone speaking English, but Italian productions were still dependent on post-production dubbing and, due to a dispute with Family Theater over miracles, the film was never finished in English and cannot be released in the US.  Italian, French and German dubbings were made. This is the Italian, by far the best.