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The Holy Boy

Original title: La valle dei sorrisi

If we could rid ourselves of all our pains, would we still be ourselves?

2025 · R · 2h 2m

Directed by Paolo Strippoli

6.7

TMDB audience score
175 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.

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Cast

  • Michele Riondino
    Sergio Rossetti

  • Giulio Feltri
    Matteo Corbin

  • Paolo Pierobon
    Mauro Corbin

  • Romana Maggiora Vergano
    Michela

  • Roberto Citran
    Don Attilio

  • Sergio Romano
    Pichler

  • Anna Bellato
    Anna

  • Sandra Toffolatti
    Elisabetta Gengo

  • Gabriele Benedetti
    Franco

  • Diego Nardini
    Lorenzo Berni

  • Alex Radetic
    Coso

  • Tatiana Lepore
    Signora Berni

  • Andrea Di Maria
    Padre

  • Valentina Elia
    Madre

  • Ferruccio Macor
    Simone

  • Vincenzo Tosetto
    Vittorio

  • Riccardo Michelutti
    Giacomo

  • Emma Dugo
    Nichi