The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
December 15, 1950Release Date
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
December 15, 1950Release Date

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Cast & Crew.

Aldo Fabrizi
Nicolaio, il Tiranno di Viterbo

Gianfranco Bellini
Narrator (voice)

Peparuolo
Giovanni il Sempliciotto

Severino Pisacane
Fra' Ginapro (as Fra' Severino Pisacane)

Roberto Sorrentino

Nazario Gerardi
San Francesco (uncredited)

Arabella Lemaitre
Santa Chiara (uncredited)

Renzo Rossellini
Narrator (voice) (uncredited) / Original Music Composer

Brunello Rondi
Screenplay / Assistant Director

Mario Gabrielli
Unit Manager

Enrico Betti Berutto
Second Assistant Camera

Marcello Caracciolo Di Laurino
Assistant Director

Félix Morlión
Screenplay

Federico Fellini
Screenplay

Roberto Rossellini
Director / Story

Antonio Lisandrini
Screenplay

Osvaldo Civirani
Still Photographer

Emimmo Salvi
Production Secretary

Gianfranco Parolini
Script Supervisor

Roberto Gerardi
Assistant Camera

Luciano Trasatti
Camera Operator

Otello Martelli
Director of Photography

Jolanda Benvenuti
Editor

Angelo Rizzoli
Producer

Virgilio Marchi
Production Design

Giuseppe Amato
Associate Producer

Raffaele Del Monte
Sound

Eraldo Giordani
Sound

Marina Arcangeli
Costume Design

Giuseppe Rissone
Set Decoration

Luigi Giacosi
Production Manager / Co-Director
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Details.
Release DateDecember 15, 1950
Original NameFrancesco, giullare di Dio
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 27m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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The Flowers of St. Francis (in Italian, Francesco, giullare di Dio, or "Francis, God's Jester") is a 1950 film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Federico Fellini. The film is based on two books, the 14th-century novel Fioretti di San Francesco (Little Flowers of St. Francis) and La Vita di Frate Ginepro (The Life of Brother Juniper), both of which relate the life and work of St. Francis and the early Franciscans. I Fioretti is composed of 78 small chapters. The novel as a whole is less biographical and instead focuses on relating tales of the life of St. Francis and his followers. The movie follows the same premise, though rather than relating all 78 chapters, it focuses instead on nine of them. Each chapter is composed in the style of a parable and, like parables, contains a moral theme. Every new scene transitions with a chapter marker, a device that directly relates the film to the novel. On October 6, 1952, when the movie debuted in America, where the novel was much less known, the chapter markers were removed.
Included in the acting cast is Gianfranco Bellini as the narrator, who has voice-dubbed several American films for the Italian cinema. Monks from the Nocere Inferiore Monastery played the roles of St. Francis and the friars. Playing the role of St. Francis is a Franciscan brother who is not credited, Brother Nazario Gerardi. The only professional actor in the film is the prominent Aldo Fabrizi, who had worked with Rossellini before, notably in the neorealistic film Rome, Open City. The film garnered international acclaim for Fabrizi. He began his film career scene in 1942 and is noted for both writing and directing his own vehicles. In this film, Fabrizi plays the role of Nicolaio, the tyrant of Viterbo.
Rossellini had a strong interest in Christian values in the contemporary world. Though he was not a practicing Catholic, Rossellini loved the Church's ethical teaching and was enchanted by religious sentiment—things that were neglected in the materialistic world. This interest helped to inspire the making of the film. He also employed two priests to work on it with him, Félix A. Morlion O.P., and Antonio Lisandri O.F.M. Though the priests contributed little to the script, their presence within the movie gave a feel of respectability with regard to theology. Morlion vigorously defended Catholic foundations within Italian neorealism and felt that Rossellini's work, and eventually scriptwriter Fellini's, best captured this foundation.
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