Caravaggio

Aug 29, 1986

1h 33m

★ 6.1

His passion came with a price.

Overview

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Genres

Drama

History

Romance

Production Companies

BFI

Channel 4 Television

Caravaggio Trailers

Cast

Caravaggio

Nigel Terry

Ranuccio

Sean Bean

Davide

Garry Cooper

Young Caravaggio

Dexter Fletcher

Jerusaleme

Spencer Leigh

Lena

Tilda Swinton

Giustiniani

Nigel Davenport

Scipione Borghese

Robbie Coltrane

Cardinal Del Monte

Michael Gough

Boy Caravaggio

Noam Almaz

Pipo

Dawn Archibald

The Pope

Jack Birkett

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