A film by Abel Ferrara
Padre Pio
Credits
DIRECTOR
Abel Ferrara
NATIONALITY
Italy/Germany
RUNTIME
104 minutes
LANGUAGES
English
COMPLETED
2022
GENRE
Historical Drama
CAST
Shia Labeouf, Cristina Chiriac, Marco Leonardi, Asia Argento, Vincenzo Crea, Luca Lionello, Salvatore Ruocco, Brando Pacitto, Stella Mastrantonio, Anna Ferrara
Federico Majorana, Michelangelo Dalisi, Martina Gatti, Alessio Montagnani, Roberta Mattei, Ermanno De Biagi, Alessandro Cremona, Ignazio Oliva, Valeria Correale, Federica Dordei, Francesco D’angelo, Piergiuseppe Francione, Juri Roverato.
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Maze Pictures, Interlinea Film and Rimsky Productions.
PRODUCER
Philipp Kreuzer, Maurizio AntoninI and Diana Phillips.
SYNOPSIS
It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, historic violence and the iron clad rule of the church and its wealthy land owners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, but victorious. Padre Pio (Shia LaBeouf) also arrives, to a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry evoking an aura of compelling charisma, saintliness and storied visions of Jesus, Mary and the Devil himself. The eve of the first free election in Italy sets the stage for an historic, and metaphoric massacre, a tragic event, one that changes the course the world.
