Christian films. Francesco. Francesco
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.                If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.                If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.                Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with.               
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Directed by Liliana Cavani
Written by Liliana Cavaniб Roberta Mazoni
Starring Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter
Music by Vangelis
Cinematography Roger Deakins
Editing by Gabriella Cristiani
Distributed by Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico
Release date(s) April 22, 1989
Running time 104 min (Germany), 150 min (Italy), 133 min(Argentina)
Country Italy, West Germany
Language English, Italian

Francesco is a 1989 docu-drama relating in flashback St. Francis of Assisi's evolution from rich man's son to religious humanitarian and finally to full-fledged saint. The film was based on Herman Hesse's Francis of Assisi, which director Liliana Cavani had previously filmed in 1966. It stars Mickey Rourke and Helena Bonham Carter. Greek composer, Vangelis, provided the musical score.

Raised as the pampered son of a merchant, Francis goes off to war, only to return with a profound horror for the society which generated such suffering. In one scene, as an act of renunciation, he strips himself of his fine clothing in front of his father, and leaves the house naked and barefoot, joining the lepers and beggars in the poor section of town. A series of episodes from Francis' life follows, rather than a coherent narrative, until his final days when he receives the stigmata, the wounds Christ suffered at the crucifixion.

The film won three awards and was nominated for a fourth. Danilo Donati won the 1989 David di Donatello Award for Best Production Design, and the 1989 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon also for Best Production Design. Fabio Bussotti won the Syndicate's Best Supporting Actor Award. Director Liliana Cavani was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast

Mickey Rourke - Francesco
Helena Bonham Carter - Chiara
Andréa Ferréol - Francesco's Mother (as Andrea Ferreol)
Nikolaus Dutsch - Cardinal Colonna
Peter Berling - Bishop Guido
Hanns Zischler - Pope Innocent III
Mario Adorf - Cardinal Ugolino
Paolo Bonacelli - Francesco's Father
Fabio Bussotti - Leone
Riccardo De Torrebruna - Pietro Cattani
Alexander Dubin - Angelo (as Alekander Dubin)
Edward Farrelly - Egidio
Paolo Proietti - Pacifico
Paco Reconti - Rufino
Diego Ribon - Bernardo di Quintavalle

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/


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