Leave the Saints Alone

Leave the Saints Alone

75 mins | Documentary | Jan. 30, 2017

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.

Leave the Saints Alone

75 mins | Documentary | Jan. 30, 2017

Leave the Saints Alone
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.
Producers Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Original title Lascia stare i santi
Directors Gianfranco Pannone
Writers Gianfranco Pannone

Cast

Fabrizio Gifuni

as Narrator (voice)

Sonia Bergamasco

as Narrator (voice)