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.
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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.