THE PREACHER / IL PREDICATORE
(visita la pagina in Italiano)

Duration: 52'
Year: 2024
Direction: Paolo Casalis
Tag: bio,religion, travel, apocalypse
Subtitles: English
THE PREACHER is the first chapter of The Apocalypse Trilogy
(The Preacher, The Researcher, The Survivors)
Production: Produzioni Fuorifuoco
Distribution: Produzioni Fuorifuoco

Climate change, drought, wars, floods, earthquakes.
In a word, the Apocalypse.
If today the future of humanity is questioned by the environmental crisis and the winds of a nuclear war, there is a man who since years is warning us that the end of the world is near, asking us to repent of our sins.
Will The Preacher be able to accomplish his mission, saving us from the upcoming Apocalypse?

LONG SYNOPSIS
Climate change, drought, wars, floods, earthquakes.
In a word, the Apocalypse.
If today the future of humanity is questioned by the environmental crisis and the winds of a nuclear war, there is a man who since years is warning us that the end of the world is near, asking us to repent of our sins.
Every day Stefano Ansaldo, a forty-five year old of South American origins, transforms streets, squares and markets into improvised places of evangelical preaching: from the suburbs to the center of Naples, from the Ligurian seafront to Saint Peter in Rome, from Germany to Brazil.
The videos are then uploaded to social networks: his Youtube channel "Only Jesus Saves", born in 2012, has now 8,500 videos and 60K followers.
“Preachers without a pulpit”, this is how Stefano Ansaldo defines himself and his wife Cristiana, who always follows him, filming every gesture and word with a cell phone.
They are not sweetened or reassuring sermons: Stefano walks among the market stalls holding a Bible in his hand, admonishing passers-by and sellers, inviting them to convert and repent, on pain of eternal damnation, because "the time of Judgment is about to come".
His voice, already firm and powerful, rises in tone and "cries out in the desert" in front of sinners or "false idols": churches, religious statues, money.
Stefano and Cristiana live aboard a RV that has become their house, as well as a mean of transport and a tool for preaching. The documentary follows their daily life, between evangelical preaching and much more earthly needs. What emerges is the intimate portrait of a man who has dedicated his life to a single cause. He has a vocation, an all-encompassing passion that does not accept compromises and which led him to isolate himself from his own church, from his own "brothers". Eventually, we may find ourselves tempted to abandon skepticism and personal beliefs and side with, almost "root for" him.
Will The Preacher be able to accomplish his mission, saving us from the upcoming Apocalypse?