Abraham is a 1993 television miniseries based on the life of the Biblical patriarch Abraham produced by Five Mile River Films. It was shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco. Directed by Joseph Sargent, it stars Richard Harris as Abraham, Barbara Hershey as Sarah, Maximilian Schell as Pharaoh and Vittorio Gassman as Terah. The film is the first in the Bible Collection series by TNT.
Abram lives in Harran, a rich city. His wife Sarai is childless, and their only heir is Eliezer of Damascus. One day, Abraham hears the voice of God, who says that he must leave Harran and travel to an unknown land. God promises to make a great nation from him and renames him Abraham and his wife Sarai as Sarah. The pattern for the plot is the Genesis chapters 11âÂÂ25.