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Leave the Saints Alone
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Leave the Saints Alone

Jan 30, 2017
1h 15m
★ 7.9

Overview

A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but perhaps is not that distant at all. Today, especially in the South, but with some “isolated” locations in the North, popular faith is still a very real thing, which finds its finest expression in song and in music.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Istituto Luce Cinecittà

Cast

Fabrizio Gifuni

Narrator (voice)

Fabrizio Gifuni

Sonia Bergamasco

Narrator (voice)

Sonia Bergamasco

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