The Nativity (film)

This article is about the 1978 film. For other uses, see Nativity § Film, television, and theater.

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.

The Nativity
Genre	Religion 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 (1978-12-17)

Plot

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

• Life of the Virgin
• List of Christmas films