Oh, Moses!

Movie
German title	Oh, Moses!
Original title	Wholly Moses!
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1980
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Gary Weis
script	Guy Thomas
production	Freddie Fields
music	Patrick Williams
camera	Frank Stanley
cut	Sidney Levin
occupation
Dudley Moore : Harvey Orchid / Herschel Laraine Newman : Zoey / Zaralda James Coco : Hyssop Paul Sand : Angel of the Lord Jack Gilford : Tailor Dom DeLuise : Schadrach John Houseman : Archangel Madeline Kahn : witch David L. Lander : Beggars Richard Pryor : Pharaoh John Ritter : Satan Richard B. Shull : Jitro Tanya Boyd : Princess Ruth Manning : Villager Walker Edmiston : Voice of God

Oh, Moses! (Original title: Wholly Moses! ) Is a Monty Python or Mel Brooks style parody of the film The Ten Commandments and the life story of Moses .

action

A tour group, which also includes the young tourists Harvey and Zoey, finds a cave in the Judean Desert , in which rolls of parchment have been stored for thousands of years .

On these, however, they find out that it was not Moses, but a simple tailor's son named Herschel who led the Israelites out of Egypt . Moses himself did not feel up to the task and gave his friend Herschel the task.

But the Pharaoh is not so easily changed, so that God sends ten plagues on Egypt.

background

The cinematic story, in which other biblical characters, including David and Goliath , Lot and his wife and the miracles of Jesus, were satirically illuminated, surprises with the realization that even a fool like Herschel can be a hero. This may have been a reason why critics have denounced the disrespectful handling of a biblical story here too.

Web links

• Oh, Moses! in the Internet Movie Database (English)