The Mass Is Ended
His hopes shattered, now it is time for another place...
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal.
Cast
Nanni Moretti
Don Giulio
Ferruccio De Ceresa
Padre di Don Giulio
Margarita Lozano
madre di Don Giulio
Marco Messeri
Saverio
Vincenzo Salemme
Andrea
Dario Cantarelli
Gianni
Roberto Vezzosi
Cesare
Enrica Maria Modugno
Valentina
Giovanni Buttafava
l'avvocato
Luisa De Santis
Lucia
Pietro De Vico
frate
Eugenio Masciari
Antonio
Antonella Fattori
Astrid
Carlina Torta
Arianna
Manfredi Aliquò
Hooligan
Francesco Di Giacomo
Federico
Daniele Luchetti
uomo che ride
Luigi Moretti
Giudice
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