The Assisi Underground (1985)

Directors

Alexander Ramati

Cast

Alessandra Mussolini, Alfredo Varelli, Angelo Infanti, Ben Cross, Carlo Monni, David Brandon, Delia Boccardo, Edmund Purdom, Francesco Carnelutti, Franco Trevisi, Geoffrey Copleston, Gianni Williams, Helmut Hagen, Irene Papas, James Mason, Karlheinz Hackl, Marne Maitland, Massimo Sarchielli, Maurice Poli, Max Turilli, Maximilian Schell, Paolo Giusti, Paolo Malco, Riccardo Cucciolla, Riccardo Salvino, Roberta Manfredi, Roberto Bisacco, Tom Felleghy, Venantino Venantini

The story

In 1943, Franciscan priest Rufino Niccacci is asked by the bishop of Assisi Giuseppe Placido Nicolini to covertly rescue Italian Jews from the Nazis. He mostly achieves this by hiding them in the monasteries and convents of Assisi and disguising them as Roman Catholic friars and nuns (even to the point of teaching them how to say the Christian prayers in Latin). He also befriends the Wehrmacht's chief medical officer in Assisi - a devout Catholic - who surreptitiously supplies Father Niccacci with medicines for the town's inhabitants.

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