The Nativity Story



Original DVD9 by JackieALF

Original Title: The Nativity Story
Country: Usa, Italy
Year: 2016                    
Genres: Biblical
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Screenplay: Mike Rich
Production: New Line Cinema
Distribution: Eagle Pictures (Italy)



Plot

The plot begins with the portrayal of the Massacre of the Innocents in the Nativity. The remainder of the movie portrays the annunciation (conception) and birth of Jesus Christ to explain why King Herod the Great ordered the murder.
One year before the massacre, Zachariah, a rabbi in Jerusalem, is making an offering, when he is told in a vision by the Archangel Gabriel that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a son. Zachariah does not believe him, stating that he is too old, and Gabriel tells him that he will be unable to speak until the boy is born. In Nazareth, 12 year old Mary is farming when soldiers come to collect taxes. One man, unable to pay, has a third of his land seized and his daughter pressed into debt slavery. Mary, betrothed to marry Joseph of Judaea, is visited by Archangel Gabriel and told that she will become pregnant with God's son, whom she is to name "Jesus". He tells her that God has blessed her cousin Elizabeth with a child despite her old age. Mary visits her before the harvest, where she witnesses the birth of John the Baptist to Elizabeth and Zechariah, who regains his speech. Mary returns from the visit pregnant, to the shock of Joseph and her parents, who fear that Joseph will accuse her of fornication, a sin punishable with death by stoning according to the Mosaic Law. At first Joseph does not believe Mary's religious explanation, but decides not to accuse her. Still shocked and angry, Joseph is later visited in a dream by the Archangel Gabriel, who tells him of God's plan for Mary's son. Finally believing, he is ashamed of his earlier doubts.



General Info

Compression: No
Movie Quality: DVD9
Size: 7494 Mb
Languages: Italian, English Ac3 5.1
Subtitles: Italian, English
Colors
Runtime: 96 min.
Menu: Yes
Extra: Trailer

 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762121/