Un bambino di nome Gesù

I'm a old man, but I saw this movie the first time on the occasion of Pope's death. During Wojtyla's agony the Italian TV-Rete 4 broadcasts no stop many proper movies, as "Un Bambino di Nome Gesù'", first and second part, and similar movies. Owing to this my experience, I am tempted to say that this film can be seen "once in a blue moon"! Nevertheless it's possible to find the DVD and Assistance Service trying Ibs Italia: search with Google on web pages, Italian language "Un Bambino di Nome Gesù" - Franco Rossi - Matteo Bellina. There are two enthusiastic user comments, as "the best movie I have ever seen", 5/5 or excellent. There are also some quotations of Sages, Astrologers or Magi near Herod's court, never felt before! Further details in a second time, if it's possible.

I am trying for years to get a copy of this film that has been dubbed in english! I saw it before with english voice overs and now I can only get the German version Help!!!!! It was shown on Canadian Broadcast television once and that is where I saw it and began the search about ten or 12 years ago!

This is a wonderful movie. I spend a couple of years tracking down who owns the rights to this movie, I eventually found who had the rights to produce a DVD copy of this movie, after several conversations, I finally convinced him to make DVDs. I order a couple and surprised my mother in law with one for Christmas that year. I see it is now available on Amazon. I only wish that I could get an Ultraviolet copy of it.

This totally original "biblical" film (actually focusing on extra-biblical events) boasts an incredibly innovative screenplay, subtly and vividly directed with an excellent cast (including Matteo Bellina, Bekim Fehmiu and María del Carmen San Martín) in magnificent settings.

Most surprisingly of all: A Child Called Jesus is never didactic or overblown and totally credible, based on what we do know of that region from biblical archeology (as the Gospels are frequently problematic in this regard).

The challenge here is: How do you tell a story of Jesus (or any religious figure) as a boy without offending fundamentalists. Here they actually address a few of the biblical discrepancies that don't match up with other historical accounts (eg. the so-called Massacre of the Innocents which has never been corroborated by Palestinian history).

Ostensibly, the writers Vittorio Bonicelli, Franco Rossi and Francesco Scardamaglia must have consulted with rabbinical experts to get all the cultural details right. There is a verisimilitude here seldom seen in similar films.

This was actually made just BEFORE The Last Temptation of Christ and there's nothing presented here that would scare off "secular" or non-Christian viewers.

Best of all is the memorable score by the legendary Piero Piccioni. Looking forward to seeing the original Italian version with sub-titles, though they actually did an excellent job on the English-language version!

Yes as we well know Jesus didn't really perform a first miracle until the wedding at Cana as well the way Jesus was even responding to his own Mother saying something "What Concern might that be of mine?"Then she said to the men "Go fill Jugs with water and do as he says."Then he had turned the water into wine. However it's still a cute presentation of Jesus as a child performing miracles like Turning clay pigeons into real pigeons and putting his hands into the water to make fish multiply as he would as a grown up multiply the fish and the bread in the baskets.A certain man seen throughout this movie was suspicious of him being the child who missed a certain unspeakable time,of which I just can't specify, and survives it. Anyhow all in all you've just got to watch and enjoy this for yourself sometime without me giving too much away about it. I saw this at Christmastime of 1989 on my local Channel 25 movie presentation.

Truthfully,Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a. "Ste" of Framingham,MA USA .