Maria Goretti
by Giulio Base
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Actor: Flavio Insinna, Luisa Ranieri, Martina Pinto, Massimo Bonetti and Claudia KollDirector: Giulio Base
Brand: Ignatius Press
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-03
Studio: Ignatius Press
Movie Reviews of Maria Goretti
Movie Review: Addicting
Summary: 5 Stars
I am addicted to this movie. I remember seeing a movie about Maria Goretti in Catholic grade school - but only once. I should have been made to see it over and over and the teachers should have made the students discuss it over and over. The music, scenery and the wretchedness of the times are overwhelming. I have tried to find more information on the actors but there is little.
Please read Allessandro Serenellis final letter which I did found.
"I'm nearly 80 years old. I'm about to depart.
Looking back at my past, I can see that in my early youth, I chose a bad path which led me to ruin myself.
My behavior was influenced by print, mass-media and bad examples which are followed by the majority of young people without even thinking. And I did the same. I was not worried.
There were a lot of generous and devoted people who surrounded me, but I paid no attention to them because a violent force blinded me and pushed me toward a wrong way of life.
When I was 20 years-old, I committed a crime of passion. Now, that memory represents something horrible for me. Maria Goretti, now a Saint, was my good Angel, sent to me through Providence to guide and save me.
I still have impressed upon my heart her words of rebuke and of pardon. She prayed for me, she interceded for her murderer. Thirty years of prison followed.
If I had been of age, I would have spent all my life in prison. I accepted to be condemned because it was my own fault.
Little Maria was really my light, my protectress; with her help, I behaved well during the 27 years of prison and tried to live honestly when I was again accepted among the members of society.
The Brothers of St. Francis, Capuchins from Marche, welcomed me with angelic charity into their monastery as a brother, not as a servant. I've been living with their community for 24 years, and now I am serenely waiting to witness the vision of God, to hug my loved ones again, and to be next to my Guardian Angel and her dear mother, Assunta.
I hope this letter that I wrote can teach others the happy lesson of avoiding evil and of always following the right path, like little children.
I feel that religion with its precepts is not something we can live without, but rather it is the real comfort, the real strength in life and the only safe way in every circumstance, even the most painful ones of life."
Signature, Alessandro Serenelli
Summary of Maria Goretti
The story of Saint Maria Goretti is retold in this beautifully made new film from Italy. It tells of the plight of the poor laborers of the time, struggling to survive in a swampy area with rampant malaria and extreme poverty. Luigi and Assunta Goretti keep their faith despite the hardship, and instill in their children a deep love for God. Their daughter Maria especially is devout. But tragedy strikes more than once: sickness and death affects the Goretti family, and then their young neighbor Alessandro does the unthinkable Run Time: 105 minutes Format: 1 disc, DVD Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 978-1586172428 Language: Italian, English Subtitles: English, SpanishSimilar DVD Movies
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