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Marco the Magnificent

A story of endurance, savagery and heroism

5.2/ 1019651h 52m16

Adventure

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.

Directed by Denys de La Patellière

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Behind the frames

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Horst Buchholz

Horst Buchholz

Marco Polo

Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

Kublai Khan

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Akerman, Marco's Teacher

Bruno Cremer

Bruno Cremer

Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar

Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif

Sheik Alla Hou

Robert Hossein

Robert Hossein

Prince Nayam

Akim Tamiroff

Akim Tamiroff

The Old Man of the Mountain

Elsa Martinelli

Elsa Martinelli

The Woman with the Whip