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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Peter Greenaway (writer)
Release Date:
17 September 1993 (UK) more
Plot:
A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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Great arthouse drama. more (37 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Julia Ormond | ... | The Daughter |
 | Ralph Fiennes | ... | The Bishop's Son |
 | Philip Stone | ... | The Bishop |
| Jonathan Lacey | ... | Cosimo Medici |
| Don Henderson | ... | The Father Confessor |
| Celia Gregory | ... | Mother Superior |
| Jeff Nuttall | ... | The Majordomo |
| Jessica Hynes | ... | The First Midwife (as Jessica Stevenson) |
| Kathryn Hunter | ... | The Second Midwife |
| Gabrielle Reidy | ... | The Third Midwife |
| Frank Egerton | ... | The Prompter |
| Phelim McDermott | ... | The First Tutor |
| Tony Vogel | ... | The Father |
| Tatiana Strauss | ... | The First Nun |
 | Louisa Millwood-Haigh | ... | The Second Nun |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Das Wunder von Macon (Germany)
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Runtime:
122 min
Country:
UK | France | Germany | Belgium | Netherlands
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Finland:K-16 (cut) (1996) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (1993) | Australia:R | France:-16 | New Zealand:R18 | Portugal:M/18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | Iceland:16
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Director Peter Greenaway has said that one of the sources of inspiration for the film was the banning of the Benetton advertising poster campaign in the UK that featured pictures of a newborn baby, covered in blood and still attached to its umbilical cord. An outcry caused the posters to be removed. "What is so horrible about a newborn baby?" Greenaway wanted to know. "Why is that image (one that is seen many times a day in hospitals all over the country) so unacceptable, when much more horrific images are presented on television and the cinema, featuring murder and rape, but glamorized and made safe?" Thus Greenaway set out to make a film featuring murder and rape in which "nothing was glamorized and nothing was safe". more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004) more
Soundtrack:
L'Orfeo more
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Peter Greenaway is one of the most unique directors at work in cinematic arthouse today.He made several truly original movies like "The Falls"(1980),"A Zed and Two Noughts"(1985),"The Pillow Book"(1997) etc."The Baby of Macon" is pretty demented with the scenes of cannibalism,incest,rape and gore.The film is difficult,challenging,brutal and darkly beautiful.A baby is born from a supposed virgin woman,so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth takes place.The scene when stunningly beautiful Julia Ormond is gang-raped is really hard to watch-it is not graphic,but her agonizing screams are quite convincing.Highly recommended if you want to see totally challenging piece of art.