In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.

Genres

Cast

Alberto Cracco

Brother Eusebio

Didier Bénureau

Friar Ilario

Sergio Bini Bustric

Friar Giocondo

Fernando Fernán Gómez

The prior

Ernesto Lama

Brother Campanaro

Thierry Nenez

Friar Caretaker

Lucio Romero

Brother Philip

Francesco Scali

Brother Jerome

Francesco Siciliano

The painter

Yves Verhoeven

Brother Theodore

Roberto Herlitzka

Il precettore

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Il conte