Miracle in Rome

Miracle in Rome (1989)

Milagro en Roma

The daughter of a humble public official dies unexpectedly. Twelve years later, when she is exhumed, the father discovers her body is intact. With money collected in the town, the father travels to Rome with his daughter's body, so the Pope can decide whether she is the first Colombian saint or not.

Date of release
1989-08-14
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama
Director
Lisandro Duque Naranjo

Casting

Interesting facts

Milagro en Roma is a 1988 Colombian film directed by Lisandro Duque Naranjo and based upon The long happy life of Margarito Duarte, a story by the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez, originally published in 1981. The film follows the story of Margarito Duarte, a man whose daughter died under sudden and inexplicable circumstances. Disinterred years later, her body is discovered in pristine condition, having undergone no apparent decomposition. Unwilling to bury his daughter once again, Margarito struggles with the Vatican to have his daughter canonized as a saint.

Production

Milagro en Roma was conceived as one of a series of six films born out of Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez's interest in Cinema. García Márquez wrote the outlines of the scripts and the making of the films was given to directors from Ibero-America.

Milagro en Roma was directed by Lisandro Duque and produced by Spanish TV SA and International Network Group under the auspices of the Foundation of New Latin American Cinema as the other films of the Amores Dificiles series. Gabriel García Márquez had been very favorable impressed by Colombian film director Lisandro Duques after watching his film Visa U.S.A (1986) and, based on this, the famous novelist invited Duque to work with him on the scri…

The story of Milagro en Roma was inspired by a newspaper article published by the author in 1981 entitled The long and happy life of Margarito Duarte which recounts a more than twenty years fruitless battle of a humble Colombian man to have his daughter canonized at the Vatican.

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