The Flowers of St. Francis

1950

Italian

7.3

♡ 2

Roberto Rossellini Director

Severino Pisacane as Fra' Ginapro

Peparuolo as Giovanni il Sempliciotto

Gianfranco Bellini as Narrator

Aldo Fabrizi as Nicolaio, il tiranno di Viterbo

In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.