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Vangelo secondo Maria

Genre

Period film

Cast

Benedetta Porcaroli, Alessandro Gassmann, Lidia Vitale, Leonardo Capuano, Giulio Pranno, Maurizio Lombardi, Fortunato Cerlino, Andrea Pittorino

Directed by

Paolo Zucca

Vangelo secondo Maria

Genre

Period film

Cast

Benedetta Porcaroli, Alessandro Gassmann, Lidia Vitale, Leonardo Capuano, Giulio Pranno, Maurizio Lom

Directed by

Paolo Zucca
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Where it was filmed 'Vangelo secondo Maria'

Vangelo secondo Maria is a love story – that between Mary, a girl from Nazareth, and Joseph, her teacher and accomplice.  Although, as a woman, everything is forbidden to her, even learning to read and write, she dreams of freedom and wisdom. She is enthusiastic about the stories of the Bible. She wants to escape on a donkey and discover the world, so decides to disobey the rules of society. Her husband, Joseph, is secretly instructing her and preparing her for her getaway, when the pair unexpectedly falls in love.

Director Paolo Zucca wanted to give Vangelo secondo Maria the recognisable narrative context of the Bible, although one of its distinctive elements is its setting in a clearly local geographical location, Sardinia. There was never any thought of faithfully reconstructing the presumed historical reality of Galilee two thousand years ago, and even less of evoking the stereotyped imagery of an exotic nativity scene with turbans and palm trees. Rather, the aim was to evoke the shared Mediterranean heritage of ancient agricultural-pastoral civilisations, using the extraordinary archaeological and anthropological patrimony of Sardinia. This approach arose from the desire to create an original poetic universe, as sober in its staging of the archaic world as it is imaginative in its reworking of the Biblical story.

Locations included the interior of the Early Christian Basilica of San Giovanni di Sinis, in Cabras (province of Oristano), which was used for the synagogue of Nazareth, where the priest reads passages from the Old Testament during a religious ceremony while a prophet recites verses from Isaiah outside.

The Colle di San Michele Park, a green area on the outskirts of Cagliari, served as a location with the production shooting for three days in a cavity in the rock beneath the medieval castle. The cave provided the interiors corresponding to the exteriors of a domus de janas in Villa Sant' Antonio in Marmilla (Oristano). Also in Marmilla, scenes with temple merchants were filmed in Siddi. Another location was Montiferru, Sardinia’s largest complex of volcanic origin which overlooks the gulf of Oristano and the wooded plateau of Abbasanta.

Locations also included the province of Nuoro: in particular, an area of the Flumendosa river in the Gadoni area for the river scenes; and the nuragic complex of Tamùli, an important archaeological area dating to the Mid Bronze Age in Macomer.

Where it was filmed 'Vangelo secondo Maria'

Vangelo secondo Maria is a love story – that between Mary, a girl from Nazareth, and Joseph, her teacher and accomplice.  Although, as a woman, everything is forbidden to her, even learning to read and write, she dreams of freedom and wisdom. She is enthusiastic about the stories of the Bible. She wants to escape on a donkey and discover the world, so decides to disobey the rules of society. Her husband, Joseph, is secretly instructing her and preparing her for her getaway, when the pair unexpectedly falls in love.

Director Paolo Zucca wanted to give Vangelo secondo Maria the recognisable narrative context of the Bible, although one of its distinctive elements is its setting in a clearly local geographical location, Sardinia. There was never any thought of faithfully reconstructing the presumed historical reality of Galilee two thousand years ago, and even less of evoking the stereotyped imagery of an exotic nativity scene with turbans and palm trees. Rather, the aim was to evoke the shared Mediterranean heritage of ancient agricultural-pastoral civilisations, using the extraordinary archaeological and anthropological patrimony of Sardinia. This approach arose from the desire to create an original poetic universe, as sober in its staging of the archaic world as it is imaginative in its reworking of the Biblical story.

Locations included the interior of the Early Christian Basilica of San Giovanni di Sinis, in Cabras (province of Oristano), which was used for the synagogue of Nazareth, where the priest reads passages from the Old Testament during a religious ceremony while a prophet recites verses from Isaiah outside.

The Colle di San Michele Park, a green area on the outskirts of Cagliari, served as a location with the production shooting for three days in a cavity in the rock beneath the medieval castle. The cave provided the interiors corresponding to the exteriors of a domus de janas in Villa Sant' Antonio in Marmilla (Oristano). Also in Marmilla, scenes with temple merchants were filmed in Siddi. Another location was Montiferru, Sardinia’s largest complex of volcanic origin which overlooks the gulf of Oristano and the wooded plateau of Abbasanta.

Locations also included the province of Nuoro: in particular, an area of the Flumendosa river in the Gadoni area for the river scenes; and the nuragic complex of Tamùli, an important archaeological area dating to the Mid Bronze Age in Macomer.

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Data sheet

Genre
Period film
Directed by
Paolo Zucca
Cast
Benedetta Porcaroli, Alessandro Gassmann, Lidia Vitale, Leonardo Capuano, Giulio Pranno, Maurizio Lombardi, Fortunato Cerlino, Andrea Pittorino
Country of production
Italy
Year
2023
Setting year
year 0
Production

La Luna, Indigo Film, Vision Distribution, Sky

Plot
Mary is a girl from Nazareth. Although, as a woman, everything is forbidden to her, even learning to read and write, she dreams of freedom and wisdom. At the synagogue she is enthusiastic about the stories of the Bible, like Don Quixote with adventure novels. She learns disobedience from the audacity of the prophets and dreams of escaping on a donkey and discovering the world, far away. She finds a teacher in Joseph and also an accomplice. Their marriage is chaste, a screen, while he secretly instructs her, preparing her for escape. But there's an unexpected obstacle: Mary and Joseph fall in love. They are about to celebrate their passion, when the angel of the Annunciation ruins everything. God's plan and Mary's plan do not coincide at all.

The locations

Cagliari
Region: Sardegna Type: City Territory: Sea

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