Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him.
Acting
Richard Harris makes Abraham's wrinkled anguish viscerally human.
Production
Genuinely impressive desert scale for a '93 TV movie.
Director
Joseph Sargent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Harris was actively dying during filming and reportedly used his own mortality to fuel Abraham's desperation. He passed away nine years later.
This was part of a TNT biblical epic wave in the '90s that tried to make Scripture prestige TV—competing directly with the more sensational '90s miniseries Bible craze.
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