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A Movie for Today... And All Time - The Flowers of St. Francis
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Title: The Flowers of St. Francis

Release Date: 15 Dec 1950

Runtime: 1h 27m

Genre: History, Drama

Director: Rizzoli Film, Cineriz

Production Companies: Rizzoli Film, Cineriz

Overview: In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.

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Average Vote: 7.1 (89 votes)

Cast

  • Nicolaio, il Tiranno di Viterbo: Aldo Fabrizi
  • Narrator (voice): Gianfranco Bellini
  • Giovanni il Sempliciotto: Peparuolo
  • Fra' Ginapro (as Fra' Severino Pisacane): Severino Pisacane
  • : Roberto Sorrentino
  • San Francesco (uncredited): Nazario Gerardi
  • Santa Chiara (uncredited): Arabella Lemaitre
  • Narrator (voice) (uncredited): Renzo Rossellini
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