Synopsis
In the village of Nazareth, in Judea, lives a beautiful young adolescent girl, named Mary. Her parents dream of marrying their daughter to the son of a rich merchant but Mary refuses. She prefers to be engaged to Joseph, the carpenter, who loves Mary scretely. Joseph is about thirty years old, but Mary does not care and since the Jewish tradition lets the woman choose freely her husband, her parents accept that she be engaged to Joseph. One evening, Mary is suddenly surrounded by a supernatural light and then she hears the reassuring voice of the Angel : "Do not fear Mary, for you have found favor with God. You shall conveive in your womb and give birth to a Son, you will name him Jesus. He will be Great because he is the Son of the Most High". Mary speaks the words of acceptation which will change her destiny.
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Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Azur Films
- Co-production : Belvision
- Foreign production company : Moroccan Productions & Services (MPS)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Mediatoon Distribution
- French distribution : Media Films
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Jacques Quintard
- Assistant directors : Fabienne Chauveau, Michel Leroy
- Sound Recordist : Jean Minondo
- Screenwriters : Jean Delannoy, Jacques Douyau
- Director of Photography : Claude Agostini
- Press Attachés (film) : Dominique Segall, Myriam Bruguière
- Editor : Françoise Berger-Garnault
- Production Designer : Gilles Parrondo
- Music Composer : Olivier Lliboutry
- Costume designer : Javier Artinano
- Narrator : Georges Wilson
- Still Photographer : Erick Bonnier
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Historical
- Themes : Religion
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Morocco, France, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (Morocco, France, Belgium)
- Production year : 1994
- French release : 29/03/1995
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 82.066
- Visa issue date : 19/12/1994
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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"No film has ever been made about the woman Bernanos called "Mary, the mother of the Lord"... As for Saint Thomas de Villeneuve, he gave this disenchanted cry : "O, Evalgelists, why did you not set down what she did with her Son among men, how she lived with the Apostles ?" I heard this call. This film is my reply. I wished to fill the astonishing void of the Scriptures and return to Mary her dignity as a woman. Matthieu, Luke and John helped me in part but, for the rest, I had to imagine her in her everyday life. "The painter invents reality", Jean Cocteau used to say. I wanted the final film in my long career to be the pinnacle, just as a craftsman of the old days would make his masterpiece."
(Jean Delannoy)
