The Holy Boy
2025 · 122 min · Thriller, Drama, FantasyR
If we could rid ourselves of all our pains, would we still be ourselves?
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.
- Director
- Paolo Strippoli
- Writers
- Paolo Strippoli, Jacopo del Giudice, Milo Tissone
- Released
- September 17, 2025
- Language
- Italian
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
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