--- title: 'Marco Polo (1982)' type: 'film' director: 'Giuliano Montaldo' released: '1982-01-01' runtime_minutes: 504 genres: - 'Drama' - 'History' countries: - 'Italy' - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/marco-polo-1982' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083446/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Marco Polo (1982) 1982 · 504 min · Drama, History · Italy, United States ## Synopsis Marco Polo is a 1982 American-Italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States and by RAI in Italy. It stars Kenneth Marshall as Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer. The series also features appearances by Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Burt Lancaster, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy, and others. It was originally broadcast in four episodes, where episodes 1 and 4 were twice as long as episodes 2 and 3. The series is sometimes divided into six equally long episodes. ## Credits - **Director:** [Giuliano Montaldo](https://cinepixo.com/people/giuliano-montaldo) - **Screenplay:** [David Butler](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-butler), [Vincenzo Labella](https://cinepixo.com/people/vincenzo-labella) - **Producer:** [Vincenzo Labella](https://cinepixo.com/people/vincenzo-labella) - **Original Music Composer:** [Ennio Morricone](https://cinepixo.com/people/ennio-morricone) - **Director of Photography:** [Pasqualino De Santis](https://cinepixo.com/people/pasqualino-de-santis) ## Cast - [John Karlsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-karlsen) - [Paul Müller](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-muller) - [Henry O](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-o) as astrologer - [Marilù Tolo](https://cinepixo.com/people/marilu-tolo) as Donna Fiammetta - [Beulah Quo](https://cinepixo.com/people/beulah-quo) - [David Warner](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-warner) as Rustichello da Pisa - [Renato Scarpa](https://cinepixo.com/people/renato-scarpa) - [Tetsurō Tamba](https://cinepixo.com/people/tetsuro-tamba) as Saiamon - [Leonard Nimoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonard-nimoy) as Ahmad Fanakati - [Jack Watson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-watson) - [Andrew Keir](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-keir) - [Georgia Slowe](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgia-slowe) as Caterina - [Tony Lo Bianco](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-lo-bianco) as Brother Nicholas - [Tad Horino](https://cinepixo.com/people/tad-horino) - [James Hong](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-hong) as Pakpa Lodro Gyeltsen ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/marcopolo Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/marco-polo-1982 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1626134); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.