THE MASS IS ENDED
synopsis
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal. Father Giulio determines to leave again, but his stopped parents convince him to perform the wedding ceremony for his friend Caesar and his fiancee. Don Giulio rushes through the ceremony and then away from Rome. Once away from the city, he immediately regains happiness.
international title: | The Mass Is Ended |
original title: | La messa è finita |
country: | Italy |
year: | 1985 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Nanni Moretti |
film run: | 94' |
release date: | IT 15/11/1985, DE 02/1986, DK 14/11/1986, FR 14/01/1987, BE 11/06/1987, FI 27/05/1988, HU 15/12/1988, NL 31/07/1990, ES 27/12/1991, GR 11/1995, PL 24/07/2016 |
screenplay: | Nanni Moretti, Sandro Petraglia |
cast: | Nanni Moretti, Ferruccio De Ceresa, Marco Messeri, Enrica Maria Modugno, Dario Cantarelli, Giovanni Buttafava, Luisa De Santis, Pietro De Vico, Eugenio Masciari, Vincenzo Salemme, Roberto Vezzosi, Margarita Lozano, Sandro De Santis, Mauro Fabretti |
cinematography by: | Franco Di Giacomo |
film editing: | Mirco Garrone |
art director: | Giorgio Bertolini, Amedeo Fago |
costumes designer: | Lia Francesca Morandini |
music: | Nicola Piovani |
producer: | Achille Manzotti |
executive producer: | Raffaello Saragò |