Il piccolo lord

Story

Synopsis

11-year-old Christian lives with his Italian mother Gioia in poverty on the island of Ischia. His German father died in a rescue mission before Christian was born. The kind boy had an unremarkable and calm life until, one day, his grandfather Carl Schneibel finds him. Schneibel is a wealthy businessman who had never seen Christian before. Since the old lonely man has no heir, he decides to take Christian in and offer him a good education. Schneibel has never been on good terms with his son and never liked his son’s choice of wife, so he decides that Gioia must not come along. Despite, Gioia does not wish to obstruct her son’s future and allows him to go. Thanks to his good nature and his kind ways, Christian wins the heart of his grandfather and changes his life for the better.

Director

Gianfranco Albano

Writers

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Sergio Donati

Language

Italian

Country

Germany, Italy

Release date

1 January 1995

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Mario Adorf

  Carl Schneibel

• 

  Marianne Sägebrecht

  Klara

• 

  Antonella Ponziani

  Gioia

• Francesco De Pasquale

  Christian

• 

  Giovanni Mauriello

  Don Gennaro

• 

  Edoardo Velo

  Ciro

• Giancarlo Puglisi

  Marco

• 

  Armando De Ceccon

  Christian sen

• Giuseppe Ieracitano

  Ninuccio