Country: Italy
Year: 1935
Duration: 90'
Restored by CSC - Archivio nazionale del cinema d’impresa, in collaboration with Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Cineteca di Bologna, and George Eastman Museum in Rochester.
Giovannino Bosco comes from a farming family in Monferrato and is sent to study in Chieri, where he makes friends with Luigi, whose death affects him deeply. He is ordained as a priest in 1841 and begins to take care of needy children, founding the first youth club despite the opposition of the neighborhood and the local authorities. This experience leads to professional and agricultural schools and, in 1859, the Salesian order. After founding the female section of the order, the Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice, in 1872, Don Bosco begins organizing missionary activities that will take the Salesians throughout the world. He names Michele Rua his successor and dies in 1888 in Valdocco. In 1934, he is canonized in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Biography
film director
Goffredo Alessandrini
Giovannino Bosco comes from a farming family in Monferrato and is sent to study in Chieri, where he makes friends with Luigi, whose death affects him deeply. He is ordained as a priest in 1841 and begins to take care of needy children, founding the first youth club despite the opposition of the neighborhood and the local authorities. This experience leads to professional and agricultural schools and, in 1859, the Salesian order. After founding the female section of the order, the Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice, in 1872, Don Bosco begins organizing missionary activities that will take the Salesians throughout the world. He names Michele Rua his successor and dies in 1888 in Valdocco. In 1934, he is canonized in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
FILMOGRAFIA
Diga di Nag Hamadi (1929), La segretaria privata (1931), Seconda B (1934), Don Bosco (1935), Cavalleria (1936), Luciano Serra pilota (1938), Abuna Messias (1939), Giarabub (1941), Noi vivi - Addio, Kira! (1942), L’ebreo errante (1948), Camicie rosse (1952).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Goffredo Alessandrini. STORY: Onorato Castellino, Rufillo Uguccioni. SCREENPLAY: Goffredo Alessandrini, Sergio Amidei, Aldo Vergano. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Arturo Gallea. FILM EDITING: Giorgio Simonelli. SET DESIGN: Teonesto De Abate. MUSIC: Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Gian Francesco Malipiero. CAST: Gian Paolo Rosmino, Maria Vincenza Stiffi, Ferdinando Mayer, Roberto Pasetti, Vittorio Vaser, Felice Minotti. PRODUCTION: Lux Film.
CONTACT: Fondazione CSC - Centro sperimentale di cinematografia elena.testa@fondazionecsc.it
