
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
Cast

Horst Buchholz
Marco Polo

Anthony Quinn
Kublai Khan

Orson Welles
Akerman, Marco's Teacher

Bruno Cremer
Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar

Omar Sharif
Sheik Alla Hou

Robert Hossein
Prince Nayam

Akim Tamiroff
The Old Man of the Mountain

Elsa Martinelli
The Woman with the Whip

Grégoire Aslan
Achmed Abdullah

Massimo Girotti
Nicolo, Marco's Father

Folco Lulli
Spinello, Venetian Merchant

Guido Alberti
Pope Gregory X

Jacques Monod
Nicolo de Vicenza, a Knight Templar

Miloje 'Mića' Orlović
Matteo, Marco's Uncle

Lynne Sue Moon
Princess Gogatine

Maria Virginia Onorato
Alaou's Wife
Mansoureh Rihai
Taha

Michel Bouquet
Narrator (uncredited)

Dragomir Felba
(uncredited)
Andrej Gardenin
Fencer (uncredited)

Noël Howard
(uncredited)

Cliff Lyons
(uncredited)
Myriam Michelson
Chinese Princess (uncredited)
Ljubo Škiljević
(uncredited)

Lucille Soong
Princess Bride (uncredited)

Aleksandar Stojković
(uncredited)

Janez Vrhovec
(uncredited)
Crew

Denys de La Patellière
Director, Writer

Raoul Lévy
Director, Writer, Producer

Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Writer
Jacques Rémy
Writer

Noël Howard
Writer
Noëlle Balenci
Editor

Jacqueline Thiédot
Editor

Claude Renoir
Director of Photography
Wladimir Ivanov
Director of Photography

Armand Thirard
Director of Photography

Jacques Saulnier
Production Design
Jacques Fonteray
Costume Design
Radmila Todorović
Makeup Artist
Jean Nény
Sound Mixer
Jacques Labussière
Sound Engineer
Pierre-Henri Goumy
Sound Engineer
Roscoe Cline
Special Effects
Georges Garvarentz
Original Music Composer
M.J. Coignard-Helison
Music
Mario Bua
Music
Milan Mitić
Stunts
Slavoljub Plavšić 'Zvonce'
Stunts
Miodrag Mirić
Art Direction
Miodrag Nikolić
Art Direction
Veljko Despotović
Art Direction
Slobodan Mijačević
Art Direction
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