The film begins with the Annunciation: Mary, a young Galilean, virginal conceived the Messiah, the Son of God. Her husband Joseph, a humble carpenter, decided to stay by his side throughout. When Caesar Augustus ordered the Jews to register people, the couple embarks on a journey to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. Meanwhile, Maria Magdalena, a young woman from the same town that Mary, turns away from God and placed in the palace of King Herod, Herodias where convinces her to lose her innocence in the arms of the king's son.
Alissa Jung
as Maria
Paz Vega
as Maria Magdalena
Andreas Pietschmann
as Jesus
Antónia Lišková
as Herodias
Thomas Trabacchi
as Joazar
Luca Marinelli
as Josef
Andrea Giordana
as Herodes
Roberto Citran
as Joachim
Johannes Brandrup
as Herodes Antipas
Nikolai Kinski
as Judas Ischariot
Robert Stadlober
as Hircanus
