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
Tino Bianchi
L'officiale
Paolo Graziosi
Il promotore della fede
Evi Maltagliati
Madre Agnese
Brunella Bovo
Suor Anna di Gesù
Miranda Campa
Suor Maria Gabriella della Concezione
Franca Mantelli
Suor Matilde della Resurrezione
Maria Grazia Marescalchi
Suor Giovacchina dei Santi Angeli Custodi (as M. Grazia Marescalchi)
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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