PADRE PIO

By Abel FERRARA

MIR CINEMATOGRAFICA - as PROD

Historical - Development 2018


    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Historical, Drama
    • Countries
    • ITALY, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Abel FERRARA
    • Writer(s)
    • Maurizio BRAUCCI
    • Synopsis
    • 1920, South Italy. At the dawn of Fascist regime, the farmers of a small rural community in Apulia succeed to
      elect the first Socialist mayor ever to achieve a better life. The local landlords maneuver the Black Shirts
      (mainly WWI veterans) whose backlash is immediate and ruthless: fourteen peasants, including women and
      children, are drowned in their own blood. This widespread violence struck dumb the village and paves the
      road to restoration of the ancient order. Witness of these dramatic events is a young friar, Padre Pio,
      renowned for his sanctity and thaumaturgy talents that he uses to heal people in the day and to fight the
      visits by the Devil in the night.
      But who’s now the Devil of the village?