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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
History /
War
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Release:
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Director:
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Franco Zeffirelli
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Actors:
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Graham Faulkner,
Judi Bowker,
Leigh Lawson,
Kenneth Cranham,
Lee Montague,
Valentina Cortese,
Alec Guinness,
Michael Feast,
Nicholas Willatt,
John Sharp
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Duration:
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135 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)22
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Plot Summary:
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This is a dramatization of events in the living of St. Francis of Assisi from already his conversion common sense through his audience with the pope, including his amiability with St. Clare.
The beginning of the 13th century, the town of Assisi in Italian Umbria. The son of a rich dealer, Francesco Bernardone, comes back ill from war. In his delirium, he goes back in his memories to the days when he exhausted in good time always on parties and carnal pleasures. Until now, the shadow of the cantankerous that he sees in fever brings an end to his old life. The armor which he calls "my death sem... blance" appears to be his final clothing of the former good-natured. He slowly recovers but after the illness there is not the Francesco that was known to everybody any longer. A substitute alternatively of spending hours in taverns, he spends them on meadows, in lieu of of drinking, he meditates the strength of God's creatures. Once, he encounters a ruined no church. There, from the stale cancel, Christ changes his life forever. Francesco renounces the riches, his family and starts to rebuild the Church as "il Poverello - the poorest of the skimpy." Presently, he gathers divers people who are willingly built into a powerful new Incorporeal Temple. Commitment the kingly pope accept a new society of beggars and the poorest of the poor? Commitment the shining gold brook the inner treasure?Read more Less
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