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Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
2004 6.8 (23 votes) 3h 16m
Genres
Adventure Family History TV Movie
Production Companies
Rai Fiction
Lux Vide
Blue Star Movies
D&B Production

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love (Don Bosco)

The Story of the Apostle of Youth

Overview

Piedmont (Italy), nineteenth century. In Turin, the priest Don Bosco, a man from a humble farming family, he gave himself totally and passionately to the task of collecting from the streets to marginalized children and care for them. Not only out of poverty, ignorance and social distress, but it got for the first time, to feel loved. He fought with extraordinary faith and tenacity to overcome obstacles and snares that both the civilian and ecclesiastical authorities, they put in their path to prevent him from completing his goal: the founding of the Congregation of the Salesians, which would guarantee the future of their children .

Key Crew

Director: Lodovico Gasparini

Producer: Luca Bernabei, Matilde Bernabei

Screenplay: Lodovico Gasparini, Carlo Mazzotta, Saverio D'Ercole, Francesca Panzarella, Lea Tafuri, Graziano Diana

Director of Photography: Giovanni Galasso

Story: Graziano Diana

Top Cast

Flavio Insinna
Flavio Insinna

Don Bosco

Lina Sastri
Lina Sastri

Margherita Bosco

Charles Dance
Charles Dance

Marchese Clementi

Ry Michael Finerty

Giovanni Cagliero

Daniel Tschirley

Michele Rua

Fabrizio Bucci

Bruno

Lewis Crutch
Lewis Crutch

Domenico Savio

Brock Everitt-Elwick

Don Bosco as a child

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