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Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

The Story of the Apostle of Youth
Sep 22, 2004 · 3h 16m
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Family
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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 .

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CAST

Flavio Insinna
Don Bosco
Lina Sastri
Margherita Bosco
Charles Dance
Marchese Clementi
Ry Michael Finerty
Giovanni Cagliero
Daniel Tschirley
Michele Rua
Fabrizio Bucci
Bruno
Lewis Crutch
Domenico Savio
Brock Everitt-Elwick
Don Bosco as a child
Directed by Lodovico Gasparini

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Status
Released
Original language
IT
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Production
Rai Fiction, Lux Vide, Blue Star Movies, D&B Production
Country
IT

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