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.
Alberto Cracco | Frate Eusebio |
Didier Bénureau | Frate Ilario |
Sergio Bini Bustric | Frate 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 |