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The Baby of Mâcon is a British film of genre Drama directed by Peter Greenaway released in USA on 4 november 1994 with Julia Ormond
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
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Add to a movie listThe Baby of Mâcon is a 1993 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway starring Ralph Fiennes, Julia Ormond and Philip Stone.
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A town cursed with barren women and famine is saved by a miracle birth to an old, ugly woman: the Mother. Immediately afterwards, the old woman's Daughter (Ormond) claims to have delivered the baby herself in a virgin birth. She imprisons the Mother and begins to exploit the Baby by selling blessings to the desperate townspeople of Mâcon.Actors
Julia Ormond
(The Daughter)
Ralph Fiennes
(The Bishop's Son)
Philip Stone
(The Bishop)
Don Henderson
(The Father Confessor)
Jessica Hynes
(The First Midwife (as Jessica Stevenson))
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