saving grace

Director: robert m. young

Actor: tom conti,fernando rey,erland josephson,giancarlo giannini

Data Published: Tue Aug 19 1986

Genres: Comedy,Drama

Key Words: italy,pope,vatican,widow,cardinal the priest

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091895/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Grace_(1986_film)

Description: Saving Grace is a movie starring Tom Conti, Fernando Rey, and Erland Josephson. A young pope who feels he has lost touch with the people accidentally locks himself out of the Vatican and believes it is part of God's plan for him.

Plot: A year after his election, a youthful Pope (Conti) longs to be involved in ordinary people’s lives again, as he was when he was a priest. During an audience, the Pope communicates with a deaf mute young girl whose village has no priest. Accidentally locked out of the Vatican, the Pope travels to the small impoverished and demoralized village, his identity concealed by his beard growth. He realizes that the people need to rebuild a dilapidated aqueduct but, more importantly, that they must regain their community spirit and self-sufficiency. Without expertise and, initially, only the help of some street-wise orphans, he starts construction. All this is watched skeptically by a mysterious neighbour played by Giannini and opposed by local thugs led by Ciolino (Olmos) whose ill-gotten gains depend on the village remaining overly dependent on outsiders.