Trying to ID a movie about Mary/Jesus

[Wm777]

Awhile back I saw a movie about Jesus and/or Mary, which I cannot remember the name of…

The scene in it I want to watch again deals with Mary and Joseph’s premarital life… There’s a scene where some Roman tax collectors come to the village and pretty much take everything - including a few women for the emperor… (btw, Mary manages to hide and escape, if I remember correctly… )

In any case - for historical purposes - I’d like to study the director’s interpretation of what life was like back then…

But can anyone name this film?

Thank you in advance!

 

[Uliana988]

I think you’re talking about “The Nativity Story”. It came out a few years ago around Christmas time.

 

[Wm777]

The Nativity Story

Yes! That’s it! Thank you! I’ve been think about it all day trying to remember… even bought and watched another film that it wasn’t… LOL called Full of Grace… which is really a great film too…

I watch so many of these, and there are so many out there - it gets hard to remember where I was at… Anyway, I bought The Nativity Story now too, so I cant forget anymore… LOL

Thank you, Uliana!

 

[Uliana988]

You’re welcome, Wm777. ray:t3:

 

[TheLittleLady]

The Nativity Story (2006) | Decent Films - SDG Reviews

From It’s a Wonderful Life to A Christmas Carol, from Miracle on 34th Street to Tim Allen’s Santa Clause films, there are more Christmas movies than you could watch in all twelve days. Yet even at the height of Hollywood biblical epics, the real meaning of Christmas was essentially ignored (a...

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" It’s fair to say that the driving religious sensibility behind The Nativity Story is more Protestant than Catholic. Even so, the film’s appeal is broadly ecumenical. If Mary’s perpetual virginity and Immaculate Conception aren’t affirmed, they aren’t contradicted either, and nothing here need be a serious obstacle for Catholic viewers. (For more on this, see “ The Nativity Story and Catholic Teaching.”)

 

[DisorientingSneeze]

I thought maybe you were talking about “Mary of Nazareth.”

 

[Crocus]

I thought maybe you were talking about “Mary of Nazareth.”

That’s the one I was thinking of. With Alissa Jung as Mary. Opens with scene about Herod terrorizing Judea. Parents hide child Mary under a bench.

Joseph courting Mary, is so sweet, compliments Mary on the two dresses she owns, one pink, one white.

 

[Wm777]

Thank you to all participants.

Try watching “Full of Grace”, if you get a chance.

It interpretive, not biblical, in nature.

It’s kind of slow at first, and focuses mainly around Peter, but then switches focus to Mary.

Her soliloquy at at the end is well acted and very moving.