

A saint on trial? The Vatican puts a 24-year-old nun's miracles under cross-examination.
Acting
Evi Maltagliati's restrained maternal grief
Direction
Cottafavi's theatrical austerity

Director
Vittorio Cottafavi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cottafavi made this for RAI during Vatican II's modernization debates—therese's 'Little Way' was being repositioned as accessible spirituality.
The actual canonization process for Thérèse began in 1914; this fictionalized trial reflects 1960s Italian Catholicism wrestling with bureaucratic faith.
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