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With this Ben Hur Poster, immerse yourself in a timeless and captivating epic. This cinematic masterpiece full of intense emotions and thrills transports you into a world of thrilling adventures and intersecting destinies. Follow the tormented destiny of Judah Ben-Hur, a man of noble lineage drawn into a spiral of betrayal, revenge and redemption. Between grandiose scenes of chariot races, epic battles and emotional confrontations, this iconic film offers an unforgettable visual and narrative experience. Let yourself be carried away by the scale of the sumptuous settings, the depth of the characters and the incredible intensity of the performances. Discover a cinematic fresco of striking beauty, where heroism, love, loyalty and the quest for justice combine. The "Ben-Hur Poster" is much more than just a film, it is an epic journey through emotions and universal values that will mark your soul long after the end of the screening.
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Description of this Ben-Hur Poster
Ben Hur is a monumental American film directed by William Wyler in 1959, based on the novel of the same name by Lew Wallace. Charlton Heston plays the title role of Israelite prince Judah Ben-Hur, whose conflict with his former friend Messala (Stephen Boyd) has tragic consequences. The film set numerous production records and was notably awarded eleven Academy Awards. This brand, which Ben Hur still shares with the films Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, remains unmatched to this day.
With a budget of $15 million (around $139 million today), Ben Hur is - after adjusting for inflation - among the most expensive productions in the history of cinema. The film was first shown on November 18, 1959 in New York. This monumental film ranks 14th in the list of the most successful films in American cinemas - taking into account inflation - behind Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and ahead of Avatar.
The film depicts the life of fictional Jewish prince and merchant Judah Ben-Hur, who. Century n. BC. lives in Jerusalem as a contemporary of Jesus Christ. The film's prologue shows the birth of Jesus.
In the year 26 after the birth of Christ: Judah Ben-Hur's childhood friend, the Messala Tribune, who saved his life, becomes commander in Jerusalem and is ready to quell every act of rebellion in the egg. The joy of reunion is great for Judah, his mother Miriam and his sister Tirzah and Messala. However, the years of separation took a toll on the friendship. It quickly becomes clear that the two men's lives have taken opposite turns. While Judah feels attached to his family and home, Messala has developed a die-hard military conscience. He believes he must assert the interests of the Roman Empire regardless of losses. He accepts the most serious violations of the law and thinks he can win Judah for it. After a great friend of Judah, who gave the old friend a precious Arabian horse, Messala asked him to name all the influential people who had criticized Rome's rule in Judea. Judah refuses to accept such a request. Messala, however, does not give in and gives him the choice: “Either you are for me or against me.”Judah responds without hesitation: “If it is the choice, then I am against you!”Hardly disappointed and in a fight, Messala immediately leaves the friend's estate and thus offends Miriam and Tirzah, who are preparing the banquet.
When Judah's administrator Simonides of Antioch appears on the annual accountability report, his daughter Esther is also there, as she plans to have an arranged marriage with a merchant. Judah inherited Simonides as a slave from his father and therefore also from his daughter. However, Judah makes it clear that he does not think about slavery and serfdom and considers Simonides a friend of the house. For marriage, she must ask permission from her master, and Judah gives her freedom as a wedding gift. However, the two have known each other since childhood and have feelings for each other.
Judah is still single because he has not yet found a woman he loves. The day before the terrible events that followed, the two confess their love for each other. Judah takes Esther's "slave ring" and puts it on his little finger, at the same time he swears to wear this ring until he finds the woman he wants to marry.
When the new governor Valerius Gratus takes office in Jerusalem, Judah and Tirzah watch the parade in his honor from the roof terrace of their home. Just as Gratus climbs among them, Tirzah leans over the parapet, causing some loose tiles to fall and strike immediately next to Gratus. Gratus's horse slips away and throws its rider. Roman soldiers then invade the home of the Judah Ben-Hur family. Against better knowledge, Messala accuses his childhood friend Judah of an assassination attempt and has him put in prison with his family. Only then does Messala check the facts of this supposed assassination attempt on the roof terrace and is convinced that other bricks in the area of the accident site are actually loose. It must therefore be clear to him that if he maintains his accusation, he is wrong.
While still in prison, Judah swears revenge on Messala. When Administrator Simonides hears of the arrest, he tries to defend Judah, but he is also arrested during his conversation with Messala. He is tortured and then released as a physically disabled person. Judah is found guilty, found guilty and sent from Messala to Tire to the kitchen.
On the march to the kitchen to Tire accompanied by Roman soldiers, Judah and other prisoners must cross a desert. Everyone is allowed to drink during a rest in Nazareth; only Judah is refused water. A carpenter unknown to him - Jesus - gives him water to drink. The officer leading the slave train initially wants to prevent this, but refrains from doing so when he confronts the stranger face to face.
After three seemingly terrible years in the kitchen, Judah, who has been chained to his bank, meets the commander of the fleet, the new consul Quintus Arrius. Not long ago, he lost his son, the ancestor of his family. He hides his grief through an energetically harsh exterior and pessimistic fatalism. Arrius is therefore impressed by the unwavering vital energy and rebellion that he recognizes in Ben Hur. The commander has Judah, who is only called as a convict to the kitchen with "41", the number of his rower, called him into the cabin and offers to start a new life as a gladiator or driver tank in the arena. Judah, who recognizes Arrius' emotional agony, rejects this and is sent back to his rudder below deck. When the expected naval battle with Macedonian pirates loomed, Arrius welded Judah together as an act of mercy. The kitchen is sunk in battle. In this situation, Judah tries to free as many fellow prisoners as possible and also saves the commander who fell into the water from drowning. Judah drags Arrius onto a wreck and chains Arrius to it when he tries to kill himself. Even when Judah realizes that it will be a Roman ship that will save her – and so her slave labor will continue – he surrenders to this fate. After the two castaways were taken on board the trireme, Arrius learned that the Battle of Rome had been victorious. He gratefully leaves his Savior Judah with the first sip from the cup with water handed to him.
Arrius is honored with a triumphal procession. He received the general staff from the hand of Emperor Tiberius. To the approval of the triumphant, the emperor obtained information about Judah. Indirectly, Tiberius had expressed doubts about the guilt of the condemned. Therefore, he gives Judah's slave to the commander of the fleet. Arrius is now supposed to decide the fate of his ward himself. In Arrius, Judah becomes a prosperous and well-known mass grave of the Circus Maximus. The new Sportidol lives in the circle of the Roman elite - full of worries that mother and sister will never be able to see again. Months later, Arrius adopted Judah, for whom he developed paternal feelings. At a glamorous festival, he announced that Judah was now also the bearer of his name and heir to his wealth. In front of the guests present, Arrius hands his signet ring to Judah, who visibly touches it. In a short speech, Judah welcomed the wish to wear the ring honorably and with great gratitude. At this festival, Arrius and Judah learn that an acquaintance of the fleet commander, Pontius Pilate, who owns a racing team himself, has been appointed governor in Judea. Pilate, who really wanted to go to Alexandria, cannot gain anything good from his new office. However, through his knowledge of Pilate, Arrius sees a way to correct the injustice that happened to Judah. But his adopted son fears he will be late if he stays in Rome any longer. Arrius therefore nostalgically lets him go to Jerusalem.
During his return journey, Judah met Balthasar of Alexandria, an old man who was seeking the Redeemer of Nazareth and wanted to be there when he began his work. He said he once followed a star to Bethlehem and saw a newborn baby in whom he believed God lived. Balthasar's host is the Arab sheik Ilderim, a true "horse idiot" who trains his horses for chariot races. Ilderim, who also calls his horses (Lipizzaner) his "children", gave them the names of the stars. The sheikh is impressed by Judah's ability to handle horses and tries to convince him to enter a race in the Jerusalem circus as a charioteer. There he would defeat the favorites, the Messala Tribune (Master of the East). Sheikh Ilderim immediately notices that Judah always has a bill with him. However, Judah initially refuses. He is determined to kill Messala and continues.
From Esther, who welcomes him with joy to Jerusalem, he learns that the fortune of the Hur family has been confiscated and Esther is hiding with her father. Judah – as the consul's adopted son – appears in a purple-lined toga of the senatorial upper class to a surprised Messala and demands to find out what happened to mother Miriam and her sister Tirzah. To emphasize his request, Judah presses the image of the signet ring, which he received from Quintus Arrius, into a wax table and throws it on the table in front of Messala with the request not to disappoint him. In the name of Messala, they are looking for the two in prison. When found in their underground dungeon, it turns out that the two have leprosy, which is why they are immediately removed from the dungeon. They want to enter the valley of the leper, but before that they go to Esther and ask them not to tell Judah about their existence and their illness, so that he remembers them as they were. In tears, Esther promises not to tell Judah about her meeting.
When Judah returns agitated from visiting Messala, Esther claims to have seen her mother and sister dead in the dungeon. Judah does not want to believe this and continues to rage at Messala. Judah now remembers the conversation with Sheikh Ilderim, who told him that there were no rules in the arena and that many men would also be killed in chariot races.
Judah participates with Ilderim's horses in the race, which he sees as an opportunity to take revenge on Messala. Messala drives a "Greek" car, on the wheel hubs of which sharp milling machines are mounted outside. He thus causes accidents and brings down several teams by getting closer to competing wagons and destroying their spokes with the milling machines. Judah barely escapes such attacks. When the wheels of both cars jam in another attack on the penultimate lap, Messala initially whips Judah. When he snatches the whip from him in the developing race and at the same time as the stuck wagons loosen with a powerful jolt, Messala falls from the wagon and is dragged away by his roaring team. Finally, the Roman fell under the hooves of the following teams and remained seriously injured. Judah wins the race. Dying, Messala tells Judah that his mother and sister are not dead - he should look for them in the leper's valley. When Judah searches for them there, he meets Esther, who is currently bringing them food. With difficulty, she is able to prevent Judah from making himself known to Miriam and Tirzah.
Judah is always inspired by revenge; Esther, on the other hand, follows the words of peace preached by a man from Nazareth named Jesus and calls on Judah to let his hatred rest. When she returns to the leper's valley and Judah surprisingly appears, they decide to bring Miriam and Tirzah to Jesus. In the city, however, they are dismayed to learn that this is being tried. On the next Stations of the Cross, Judah recognizes Jesus as the man who gave him water to drink in Nazareth. When Jesus falls to the ground under his cross, Judah in turn wants to give him water to drink, but is repelled by a Roman soldier.
Judah is the affected witness to the crucifixion of Jesus. Balthasar does not interpret the event as an end, but as a beginning. A great storm occurs during Jesus' death; Miriam and Tirzah are healed of their leprosy by a divine miracle. At home, Judah Esther, visibly moved, reports Jesus' last request on the cross: forgiveness for his executioners who did not know what they were doing. He also literally assures that he felt Jesus' words "taking the sword out of his hand" and would refrain from revenge for doing so. In the "final blow", Judah meets his mother and his sister, both cured of the terrible then incurable illness. With tears in his eyes, Judah embraces his newfound family and begins a new future with them.
