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Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 22, 2004

Runtime

3h 16m

Genres

Adventure, Family, History, TV Movie

User Score

68%

Original Title

Don Bosco

Production Companies

Rai Fiction, Lux Vide, Blue Star Movies, D&B Production

Director

Lodovico Gasparini

Description

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 .