Christopher Columbus (1985)

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Country: France, Italy, USA, West Germany
Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Release: 1985-05-19
Director: N/A
Writers: N/A
Language: English
Stars: Gabriel Byrne , Rossano Brazzi , Virna Lisi , Oliver Reed (I) (1938–1999) , Raf Vallone , Max von Sydow (I) , Eli Wallach , Nicol Williamson , Faye Dunaway , Michel Auclair
Runtime: 360 min
Awards: Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. 1 win & 2 nominations total
AKA: Cristóvão Colombo (Brazil) , Kristoffer Kolumbus, suuri seikkailija (Finland) , Христофор Колумб (Bulgaria) , Hristoforos Kolomvos (Greece) , Христофор Колумб , Cristofor Columb (Romania) , Krzysztof Kolumb (Poland) , Christopher Columbus (France, French Republic) , Christopher Columbus , Cristóbal Colón (Argentina) , Kolumbusz (Hungary) , Kolumbusz Kristóf (Hungary) , Cristoforo Colombo (Italy) , Cristóbal Colón (Spain)
Plot: The epic mini-series tells the story of the legendary Italian-born explorer Diego de Geona Taino, later known as Christopher Columbus, from his birth in c.1450 Genoa, Italy, to his young adult years as an expert sailor and navigator who, with money funded from the monarchy of Spain, sailed to the unknown West to find Asia in 1492, and instead found a 'New World' of the modern day West Indies to South America, and then follows his later years in his 50's as a tired, ailing man whose dreams of exploration and discovery to which he passed onto his son, and other followers, just before his death in 1506.
IMDB:tt0088916