Mother Teresa of Calcutta (film)

2003 Film

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Genre	Biography
Written by	Francesco Scardamaglia Massimo Cerofolini
Directed by	Fabrizio Costa
Starring	Olivia Hussey
Theme music composer	Guy Farley
Country of origin	Italy
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Anselmo Parrinello
Editor	Alessandro Lucidi
Running time	176 minutes
Original release
Release	19 October 2003 (2003-10-19)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta is a 2003 biographical television film based on the life of Mother Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity religious institute. The film stars Olivia Hussey in the title role and received a CAMIE award in 2007. The film was originally produced as the Italian television miniseries Madre Teresa.

Cast information

Olivia Hussey as Mother Teresa
Sebastiano Somma as Father Serrano: a Vatican priest sent to evaluate Mother Teresa's application for the founding of the Missionaries of Charity. Initially sceptical, he eventually becomes a follower of Mother Teresa.
Michael Mendl as Celeste van Exem: Mother Teresa's long-time spiritual director.
Laura Morante as Mother Cenacle
Ingrid Rubio as Sister Agnes/Virginia
Guillermo Ayesa as Perier
Valeria Cavalli as Drane
Enzo De Caro as Enzo Decaro
Morgane Slemp as Silvia
Antonia Frering as Sister Stephanie
Emily Hamilton as Anna
Eve Karpf as Virginia
Ravindra Randeniya as Police Chief
Daya Alwis as Kaligarth seller
W. Jayasiri as Mr. Goma

Mother Teresa (2003). A review of the film by Steven D. Greydanus, originally published in National Catholic Register.

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