Augustine of Hippo (1972)
Roberto Rossellini
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Date
- 16:00 / Cancelled 16:00 / Sold out Sunday, 16:00
Location
Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianPricing
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Conceived as a television mini-series, Augustine of Hippo portrays the struggle of the bishop of Hippo to preserve the church during the decline of the Roman Empire.
One of Rossellini’s last works, the film is a biography of St Augustine (354-430), a famous philosopher and an important figure in Christianity. The director focuses on the moment when Augustine became bishop of Hippo, a city in Proconsular Africa, the oldest Roman province outside Italy.
The film follows Augustine’s pacifist struggle against the Donatists and his tireless work to convert the people of Hippo, at a time when the Vandals were attacking the Roman Empire.
This film is part of a tetralogy about philosophical figures, which includes the feature films Socrates, Blaise Pascal and Descartes, also shown in this film cycle.
Curator's text
Saint Augustine was one of the greatest and most influential Christian thinkers, a converted libertine, an African bishop, a powerful theologian, a formidable polemicist, and the inventor of autobiography. The film follows the last decades of his life, his confrontation with heresies, and the fall of the Roman Empire that gave us The City of God. Augustine's ideas, his tone and manner, made him a Plato of Christianity, with the more systematic Thomas Aquinas being a new Aristotle. But the biographical, sacred-profane dimension of Augustine of Hippo is so strong that one of the great modernist poems, The Waste Land, refers to a passage from the Confessions, when Augustine arrives in Carthage: “burning, burning, burning”.
Power and Glory
This event is part of the film cycle ‘Power and Glory’, which includes films by Rossellini, Rohmer and Wiseman, curated by Pedro Mexia. Learn more
Credits
Original title
Agostino d'Ippona
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Duration
115 minutes
Genre
Drama
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