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1965 French film
La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo
or
Marco the Magnificent
is a
1965
international co-production
(
Afghanistan
,
Yugoslavia
,
Egypt
,
France
,
Italy
)
adventure film
directed by
Denys de La Patelliere
and
Noel Howard
.
Raoul Levy
committed suicide in December 1966 after losing most of his fortune financing this film.
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Plot
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Marco Polo (
Horst Bucholz
) is idling around in
Venice
when Pope Gregory commissions him to take a message of peace and understanding to the Emperor of China on the presumption that a young courier might stand a better chance of reaching China.
On the journey his escort is attacked and killed leaving Marco Polo on his own. He meets with
The Old Man of the Mountain
; braves all varieties of climatic conditions; is captured by the
Mongols
and witnesses a sort of "Miss China" competition in order to provide the Emperor with an Empress.
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Cast
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Production
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Rotislav Doboujinsky
worked on the design of the clothes and caparacons for the men, horses and elephants - the living figures - of the chess game.
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