Director
Raffaele Mertes
Actors
Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham, Jürgen Prochnow, Thomas Kretschmann, Ornella Muti, Frank Baker, John Hollis, Umberto Orsini, Phil Davies, Natasha Williams, Peter Halliday, Christopher Ettridge, Darren Bransford, Nicola Harrington, Peter Guinness, Bruce Purchase, Ilza Prestinari, Hassani Shapi, Karl Geary, Marco Bonini, Renato Scarpa, Zakaria Atifi
Runtime
1 h 31 min
Release Date
29 March 1999
Genres
History
Overview
King of the Persians, summons his attractive wife Vashti, to show off her beauty to the guests, the proud queen refuses to come. The king promptly bans her from ever entering his presence again, and gives orders for the most beautiful young virgins in the land to be brought to him. The young Jewess Esther, adopted daughter of her uncle Mordecai, is among the girls selected;

We have seen “One Night With the King” so many times. This was different, maybe more true to the Bible.