Pope Bergoglio, a film about his origins as an Italian migrant

(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 10 - Comes to the Sala Luce on December 16 and 17 - coinciding with the birthday of Pontefice (December 17) - the documentary film Il NostroPapa, directed by Marco Spagnoli and Tiziana Lupi . A sort of simulumentary taken from the book of the same name signed by Lupiche puts at the center of all of Papa Bergoglio's nature as a migrant. Without the emigration of his family to Argentina, he repeatedly shows the video, today there would be no Pope Francis in the Vatican. A thesis, the latter, which covers the documentary in the spirit that history is repeated over and over again. So that part of Italy today that is intolerant of migration does not know that it had migrant ancestors who suffered the same intolerance and prejudice. The film is at the same time historical images, interviews, public and private memories of the path and pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. There are archival materials (from the Luce Institute, the Vatican archives and the Ansaldo Foundation among others) and a part of pure fiction with the protagonist Iago Garcia (The secret, Don't tell my boss), an actor on the trail of that Pope Bergoglio who must interpret. Our Pope thus traces the history of the Bergoglio family from its Italian origins and emigration to Argentina, which has seen it, among other things, escape a terrible shipwreck (that of the Princess Mafalda).
In the docu then even more than an intervention of the Pope, always eminent emigration, in the sign of "that why them and not us" which indicates how our favorable destiny should make us reflect. The film - co-production between Italy and Argentina, produced by Mario Rossini for Red Film and Antonio Cervi for Lazosde Sangre, in collaboration with Rai Cinema - should land on Raiuno next year and will be seen as soon as possible by the same Pope Bergoglio. (HANDLE).