Don Milani il priore di Barbiana

Don Milani il priore di Barbiana is a 1997 Italian production made for Rai 2, directed by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi from a screenplay by Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli. It portrays the life of Don Lorenzo Milani, the Italian priest and educator born in 1923, played by Sergio Castellitto alongside Roberto Citran and Lorenza Indovina. The story centres on Milani's years of priesthood and teaching in Barbiana, a small village in the Tuscan countryside, where he founded a parish school for the children of poor families and strove to equip them with the knowledge and confidence to defend their own futures. Rather than simply celebrating the famous priest-teacher, the production highlights the man behind the public figure, following his unorthodox educational ideas and the controversies they provoked up to his death in Florence in 1967.