Marco Polo

About Marco Polo

Marco Polo is a 2007 American made-for-television historical adventure film directed by Kevin Connor, starring Ian Somerhalder, BD Wong and Brian Dennehy. In the 13th century, imprisoned in Genoa, Marco Polo, a Venetian trader, recounts his days as a young man in China to a fellow prisoner who is dying. He reminisces about his fantastic adventures, his rise to governorship in Kublai Khan's court in Mongolia, his love for a kidnapped concubine and his escape back to Italy as a wealthy man.

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Cast

Ian Somerhalder as Marco Polo

BD Wong as Pedro

Desiree Ann Siahaan as Temulun / Kensai

Brian Dennehy as Kublai Khan

Lim Kay Tong as Lord Chenchu

Christian Lee as Cogatai

Yan Luo as Chabi

Michael Chow as Chi

Mark Jax as Niccolo Polo

Alan Shearman as Maffeo Polo

Michael O'Hagan as Old Marco Polo

Ramin Razaghi Sefati as Persian Physician (credited as Rumin Razagh)

Jiaolong Sun as Chonggu (credited as Sun Jiao Long)

Zi Ge Fang as Achmath (credited as Fang Ge)

Rodger Bumpass as Rustigielo

Baljinnyamyn Amarsaikhan as Arig

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Notable quotes

“Non ho scritto neppure la metà delle cose che ho visto.”
— I have not told half of what I saw.
“I must tell you that in all this province of Maabar there is no master tailor or dressmaker to cut or stitch cloth, because the people go stark naked all the year round. . . . The king wears no more than the others, apart from certain ornaments of which I will tell you. . . . Suffice it that he wears in all so many gems and pearls that their price exceeds that of a fine city.”
— Ch. 7 (tr. Ronald Latham, 1958)
“Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.”
— I speak and speak, ... but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. ... It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

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