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| The Nativity | |
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| Genre | Biography Drama Family |
| Written by |
Morton S. Fine Millard Kaufman |
| Directed by | Bernard L. Kowalski |
| Starring |
Madeleine Stowe John Shea Jane Wyatt Paul Stewart Audrey Totter George Voskovec |
| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers |
R.S. Allen Harvey Bullock |
| Producer | William P. D'Angelo |
| Production locations | Almería, Andalucía, Spain |
| Cinematography | Gábor Pogány |
| Editors | Jerry Dronsky Robert Phillips |
| Running time | 98 minutes |
| Production company | 20th Century Fox Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | December 17, 1978 |
The Nativity is a 1978 American made-for-television biographical drama film starring Madeleine Stowe as Mary, set around the Nativity of Jesus and based on the accounts in the canonical Gospels of Matthew and Luke, in the apocryphal gospels of Pseudo-Matthew and James, and in the Golden Legend. It was directed by Bernard L. Kowalski, written by Morton S. Fine and Millard Kaufman, and filmed in Almería, Spain.
Plot
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Cast
- Madeleine Stowe as Mary
- John Shea as Joseph
- Jane Wyatt as Anna
- Paul Stewart as Zacharias
- Audrey Totter as Elizabeth
- George Voskovec as Joachim
- Freddie Jones as Diomedes
- John Rhys-Davies as Nestor
- W. Morgan Sheppard as Flavius
- Kate O'Mara as Salome
- Leo McKern as Herod
- Geoffrey Beevers as Eleazar
Home Video
The film was released on VHS on October 16, 2001. [1]
See also
References
- ^ "Announcements". hive4media.com. Archived from the original on September 8, 2001. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
External links
- The Nativity at IMDb
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Categories:
- 1978 television films
- 1978 films
- 1970s biographical drama films
- 1970s Christmas drama films
- American Broadcasting Company original films
- American biographical drama films
- Films about the Nativity of Jesus
- Films directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
- Nativity of Jesus on television
- Depictions of Herod the Great on film
- Gospel of Matthew
- Gospel of Luke
- Films scored by Lalo Schifrin
- Christmas television films
- 20th Century Fox Television films
- Films shot in Almería
- 1970s American films
- 1970s English-language films
- English-language biographical drama films
- English-language Christmas drama films
- Cultural depictions of Salome I
- Christmas television film stubs