★★★★ What does the image of Mary represent for Christians and Muslims? What do we really know about the most revered woman in history? For centuries, people of all nations, classes, and ages have been asking for her help. What does the figure of the Virgin Mary symbolize in the Gospels? Are there differences between the young woman at the Annunciation and the maternal portrait of her at the foot of the Cross? What dogmas are directly related to it? She has been called “the Immaculate” and in many other ways, how did those names originate?
To make the Mother of Jesus more fully known, this documentary begins by tracing her roots, through dramatic re-enactments and the help of anthropologists, theologians, and experts in ancient texts. Thus, the shipment whose original title is “I misteri di Maria. Da Nazareth a Fatima: ¿chi è mia madre? ”, tries to shed light on her mysteries.
In two one-hour episodes, she addresses her beginnings as a girl with a normal life in the town of Nazareth, in Galilee, on whose shoulders rested the greatest divine project ever carried out for humanity. She talks about the controversy over the stamp of her parents, Joaquín and Ana, only mentioned in the so-called “apocryphal Gospels”. She also reveals the facts of the Annunciation, that episode in the life of the Virgin in which the angel Gabriel announces that she will be the mother of Jesus; and that of the Nativity, the birth of the Child Jesus. Undoubtedly, the most famous religious scene in the world because it is the event that alters the course of history and divides time into before and after.
This very good Italian production, directed by La Storia In Rete in collaboration with TV 2000, written by Fabio Andriola and directed by Alessandra Gigante, uses recreated scenes and interviews with renowned specialists, including the writer Erri De Luca and the clergyman Giuseppe Barzaghi . Add the opinions of the journalist Vittorio Messori; world-renowned Catholic essayist versed in the figure of the Virgin. Likewise, those of Father Alberto Maggi, a friar of the ancient order of the Servants of Mary and a scholar of the Bible, particularly the Gospels. In addition, it includes the reports of the priest Ricardo Pérez Márquez, scholar and teacher at the only theology faculty dedicated to Mary of Nazareth, Professor Angelo Iacovella and Professor Fiorella Giacalone, anthropologist at the University of Perugia, who has studied the relationships between the Sacred and the Feminine, and the presence of the latter in the Gospels and other sources. The broadcast is repeated this month at different times.
