| Don Bosco | |
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| Directed by | Leandro Castellani |
| Written by | Ennio De Concini |
| Starring | Ben Gazzara |
| Cinematography | Renato Tafuri |
| Music by | Stelvio Cipriani |
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| Language | Italian English |
Don Bosco is a 1988 Italian biographical drama film directed by Leandro Castellani. It depicts real life events of Roman Catholic priest John Bosco. [1] [2]
John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of industrialization and urbanization, he dedicated his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than punishment, a method that became known as the Salesian Preventive System.
Don Bosco High School is a Roman Catholic all-boys school in Matunga, Mumbai, India. It has a subsidiary which was built in 1970 in Borivali.
Esteban María Laxague, SDB is as of 2006 the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Viedma. As any other archbishop or bishop in Argentina, his style is His Very Reverend Excellency. Addressing style is Monsignor. He was born in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina -close to Bahía Blanca- on March 4, 1957. His native tongue is Spanish although he is fluent in French and Italian, mandatory among the Salesians.
Michele Rua was an Italian Catholic priest and professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Rua was a student under Don Bosco and was also the latter's first collaborator in the order's founding as well as one of his closest friends. He served as the first Rector Major of the Salesians following Bosco's death in 1888. He was responsible for the expansion of the Salesians and the order had grown to a significant degree around the world at the time he died. Rua served as a noted spiritual director and leader for the Salesians known for his austerities and rigid adherence to the rule. It was for this reason that he was nicknamed "the living rule".
Sergio Amidei was an Italian screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's neorealist movement.
Sacro Cuore di Gesù al Castro Pretorio is a Catholic parish and titular church in Rome, Italy, the mother church of the Salesian Order.
The Diocese of San Jose, Nueva Ecija is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines.
Pasqualina "Lina" Sastri is an Italian actress and singer.
I'll Take Her Like a Father is a 1974 Italian comedy film co-written and directed by Alberto Lattuada. It is the debut-title of Teresa Ann Savoy. The film was shot in Apulia.
Dirty Linen is a 1999 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Ninfa plebea, internationally released as The Nymph, is a 1996 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Lina Wertmüller. It is based on the Premio Strega winning novel with the same name by Domenico Rea.
Don Bosco is a 1935 Italian drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Gianpaolo Rosmino, Maria Vincenza Stiffi and Ferdinando Mayer. The film is a portrayal of the life of the Catholic Priest John Bosco (1815–1888). It was made by Riccardo Gualino's Lux Film, one of the bigger Italian companies of the era. Alessandrini later went on to direct a later, more celebrated biopic of a nineteenth century religious figure with his Cardinal Messias (1939).
Saint John Bosco: Mission to Love is an Italian television miniseries directed by Lodovico Gasparini that aired on 22 and 23r September 2004 on Rai 1. It's based on real life events of Roman Catholic priest John Bosco.
Don Bosco is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and transmitted by Telesistema Mexicano.
Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire is a 1971 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe De Santis. It is his last film.
Ángel Fernández Artime, S.D.B. is a Spanish Catholic archbishop who was Rector Major of the Salesians from 2014 to 2024, the first Spaniard to hold that office. He was previously provincial superior of the Salesian Province of Leon from 2000 to 2006 and of the Southern Argentina Province from 2009 to 2014.
Egidio Viganò was a Roman Catholic priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco, who was the 7th Rector Major of that Order from 1977 until his death in 1995. Although he was an Italian, he considered Chile as his second home country because he moved there when he was 19 years old. He was also confessor of Pope John Paul II, a prominent theologian and writer. During the first centenary of the death of Don Bosco (1988), Pope John Paul II dedicated to him the Apostolic Letter Iuvenum Patris : "To our beloved son Egidio Vigano, Rector Major of the Salesian Society on the First Centenary of the death of Saint John Bosco - John Paul II, Supreme Pontiff." He participated also in the Second Vatican Council.
Leonardo Murialdo, CSI was an Italian Catholic priest and the co-founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph - also known as the Murialdines.
Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest is a 2008 Italian television movie directed by Fabrizio Costa. The film is based on real life events of Roman Catholic Pope Paul VI.
The Complete Idiot is a 1970 Spanish comedy film directed by Juan de Orduña and starring Lina Morgan, Arturo Fernández and Paca Gabaldón. It is a remake of the 1939 film of the same title.
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