Francesca

The film describes the path of Francesca's life, from a convent in Germany, criss-cross through Europe and our century, to a mountain village in the Italian Alps where she is worshipped as a saint. In between we see her triumphs as a star of the cinema screen, celebrated by a variety of peculiar Fellini crowd actors, paid tribute to by Bernhard Minetti, Marianne Hoppe and other well-known artists, of course as fictionally as the rest of the film. We see Francesca's miracle works while living as a solitary nun, her membership of the Mafia, her strange sexual aberrations, her mystic exaltations. Francesca herself remains a mystery, thus giving free range to the spectator's imagination. (pressbook)