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15 November 1985 (Italy)
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Don Giulio, giovane prete romano, ritorna a casa dopo essere stato parroco in un'isola del Mar Tirreno ed è destinato ad una chiesa di periferia...
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A very serious film about a life that has been isolated for about ten years.
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(Credited cast)| Nanni Moretti | ... | Don Giulio | |
| Ferruccio De Ceresa | ... | Father of Don Giulio | |
| Marco Messeri | ... | Saverio | |
| Enrica Maria Modugno | ... | Valentina | |
| Dario Cantarelli | ... | Gianni | |
| Giovanni Buttafava | ... | Lawyer | |
| Luisa De Santis | ... | Lucia | |
| Pietro De Vico | ... | Friar | |
| Eugenio Masciari | ... | Antonio | |
| Vincenzo Salemme | ... | Andrea | |
| Roberto Vezzosi | ... | Cesare | |
| Margarita Lozano | ... | Mother of Don Giulio | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Manfredi Aliquo | |||
| Francesco Di Giacomo | ... | Federico | |
| Mauro Fabretti | ... | Simone | |
| Antonella Fattori | ... | Astrid | |
| Inigo Lezzi | ... | Plumber | |
| Luigi Moretti | ... | Judge | |
| Luisanna Pandolfi | ... | The Mother | |
| Bianca Pesce | ... | Silvia, la sposa | |
| Carlina Torta | ... | Arianna | |
| Mario Monaci Toschi | |||
| Mariella Valentini | |||
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The Mass Is Ended
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94 min
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Ritornerai
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A great and very touching film. Similraties can be find between "le journal d'un curé de campagne" of Bresson, "winter light" of Bergman and that wonderful "la messa è finita". It was strange to me to find out a Moretti film which has not got a very determined autobiographical narration. This film is not "hilarous" or even "funny", it is about the ability to faith, to believe in someone, to love someone. The ironic face of Moretti is on the background: A confused Italian society panorama with its lots generations, wit its moral values between a traditional Catholicism and a capitalistic and individualistic vision of a society. A film of spring, but the feelings that it brings are more like the feelings of autumn. It is melancholic. It is harsh. It is about a young man who believes and who dares to return: Turning back to an island that the winds blows so powerfully that the church is attached to the soil with the chains. young man who has alienated from the world of his childhood. Rome of his memories does not exist anymore. His family, his parents, his brothers and sisters, everything about his past has changed. So a film about changing time. A film about someone who is not able to understand what is going on between the couples, who is daring to investigate the sense of love and being a couple.
A very well-written film: Screenplay is literally good. Not just a portrait of a man or a panorama of a society, but also the stories of happiness-es and sadness-es. A film about inner-life's. It is highly bergmanesque -- A film that ends where it begins. A film as a gallery of strange characters from the misanthrope brother to ex-communist. A very courageous film proves the talent of Moretti which can be situated among Bresson or Bergman. (Not only Allen and some other comics.)