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History of the World: Part I (1981)
Directed by Mel Brooks
“Ten million years in the making. The truth, the whole truth, and everything, but the truth!”
Comedy · 1h 32m
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Cast
Mel Brooks
Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
Dom DeLuise
Emperor Nero
Madeline Kahn
Empress Nympho
Harvey Korman
Count de Monet
Cloris Leachman
Madame Defarge
Ron Carey
Swiftus
Gregory Hines
Josephus
Pamela Stephenson
Mademoiselle Rimbaud
Shecky Greene
Marcus Vindictus
Sid Caesar
Chief Caveman
Mary-Margaret Humes
Miriam
Orson Welles
Narrator (voice)
Crew
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Screenplay
- Mel Brooks
- Director of Photography
- Woody Omens
- Original Music Composer
- John Morris
- Editor
- John C. Howard
- Producer
- Mel Brooks
Details
- Release date
- 1981-06-12
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- French, Latin, English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Brooksfilms, 20th Century Fox
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Box office
- $31,672,907