Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

196 mins | Adventure, Family, History, TV Movie | Sept. 22, 2004

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 .

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

196 mins | Adventure, Family, History, TV Movie | Sept. 22, 2004

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
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 .
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Lux Vide, Blue Star Movies, Rai Fiction, D&B Production
Original title Don Bosco
Directors Giulia Serughetti, Francesco Sperandeo, Carmine Elia, Nicola Barnaba, Lodovico Gasparini
Writers Francesca Panzarella, Lea Tafuri, Luca Manzi, Saverio D'Ercole, Lodovico Gasparini, Francesco Arlanch, Graziano Diana, Carlo Mazzotta

Cast

Flavio Insinna

as Don Bosco

Lina Sastri

as Margherita Bosco

Charles Dance

as Marchese Clementi

Ry Michael Finerty

as Giovanni Cagliero

Daniel Tschirley

as Michele Rua

Fabrizio Bucci

as Bruno

Lewis Crutch

as Domenico Savio

Brock Everitt-Elwick

as Don Bosco as a child

Alessandra Martines

as Marchesa Barolo

Andrea Bosca

as Enrico Zarello

Paolo Calabresi

as Don Lorenzo Fassati

Dario D'Ambrosi

as Fornaio

Roberto Ciufoli

as Signor Rodrigo

Michele Melega

as Tipografo

Arnaldo Ninchi

as Papa Pio IX