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- Egyptians are the tyrants of the piece: a Pharaoh who orders Hebrew newborns killed, a master builder who would let an old woman be crushed rather than halt work, and Rameses, whose hard-hearted rule brings the plagues down on his own people; Egypt is defined by slavery and idolatry, its sympathetic figures only those who side with Moses.
The Ten Commandments (1956)
film · 1956 American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille
- Director
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributors
- Paramount Pictures, Netflix
- Runtime
- 220 min
- Genres
- drama film, adventure film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film
- Cast
- Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson