This movie falls into the same category as Ben-Hur or The Robe: a Biblical epic that goes outside the Biblical record, imagining how other people interacted with Jesus. In this case, the story follows someone briefly mentioned in the Bible: Barabbas, the murderer Pilate freed instead of Jesus. The movie imagines Barabbas having a brief encounter with Christ, brushing it off as unimportant, then wondering when a woman he loves claims Jesus has risen from the dead. Barabbas progresses from rebel to prison again, from working in sulfur mines to fighting in the Roman coliseum,
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