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The Nativity is a american film of genre Drama directed by Bernard L. Kowalski released in USA on 17 december 1978 with Madeleine Stowe

The Nativity (1978)

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Released in USA 17 december 1978
Length 1h38
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Historical
Rating61% 3.0946353.0946353.0946353.0946353.094635

The Nativity is a 1978 television 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.

Actors

Madeleine Stowe

(Mary)John Shea

(Joseph)Jane Wyatt

(Anna)Paul Stewart

(Zacharias)Audrey Totter

(Elizabeth)
And :
Jiří Voskovec
Freddie Jones
John Rhys-Davies
William Morgan Sheppard
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