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History of the World: Part I
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
1981 · Directed by Mel Brooks · 92 min · Comedy · 8 frames
Tagline
Ten million years in the making. The truth, the whole truth, and everything, but the truth!
Crew
- Screenplay: Mel Brooks
- Cinematography: Woody Omens
- Edited by: John C. Howard
- Music: John Morris
- Production design: Harold Michelson, Stuart Craig
- Produced by: Mel Brooks
Cast
- Mel Brooks as Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
- Dom DeLuise as Emperor Nero
- Madeline Kahn as Empress Nympho
- Harvey Korman as Count de Monet
- Cloris Leachman as Madame Defarge
- Ron Carey as Swiftus
- Gregory Hines as Josephus
- Pamela Stephenson as Mademoiselle Rimbaud
- Shecky Greene as Marcus Vindictus
- Sid Caesar as Chief Caveman
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: French, Latin, English
- Studios: Brooksfilms, 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $31,672,907
- Themes: moses, roman empire, inquisition, french revolution, musical, stone age, satire, anthology, prehistory, cavemen
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