Frate Sole
Directed by	Ugo Falena and Mario Corsi
Distributed by	Essanay Studios General Film Company
Release date	1918 (1918)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Silent

Frate Sole (Brother Sun) is a 1918 Italian silent film based on the life of St Francis of Assisi, directed by Ugo Falena and Mario Corsi.

The film has four episodes, The kiss of the leper, In the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi, Time, and The stigmata.

The film was restored in 1998 with the assistance of Cineteca Italiana.^[1]

Cast

Umberto Palmarini as St Francis of Assisi
Silvia Malinverni as Clare of Assisi
Rina Calabria as Agnes of Assisi, sister of Clare
Filippo Ricci as Elia Buonbarone
Lucienne Myosa as Sibilia, la cortigiana
Bruno Emanuel Palmi as a nobleman

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Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi
Organisations	Order of Friars Minor (Custody of the Holy Land) Order of Saint Clare Secular Franciscan Order Third Order of Saint Francis
Works by Francis	Canticle of the Sun
Created	Sanctuary of Greccio Nativity scene (live)
Honors	Feast of Saints Francis and Catherine World Animal Day
Literature about	Little Flowers of St. Francis
Visual art	Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (Caravaggio) Saint Francis in Meditation (Caravaggio) Saint Francis in Prayer (Caravaggio) Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (Caravaggio) Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Giotto) São Francisco (Gonçalves) St Francis (Zurbarán) Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck) St. Francis in Ecstasy (Bellini) Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (studio of El Greco) St. Francis in Ecstasy (Zurbarán)
Music	"All Creatures of Our God and King" The Canticle of the Sun (Sowerby) Le Laudi (Suter oratorio) Légende No. 1 (Liszt) Laudato si' (Reulein oratorio) Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise
Stage	Nobilissima Visione (1938 ballet) Saint François d'Assise (1983 Messiaen opera) Samstag aus Licht (1983 Stockhausen opera)
Films	Frate Sole (1918) The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) Francis of Assisi (1961) Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) Francesco (1989) St. Francis (2002)
Related	List of places named after Saint Francis Madonna of Foligno Wolf of Gubbio Discalced Prayer of Saint Francis Society of Saint Francis Pope Francis "The Sermon of St. Francis" (poem) Pranchiyettan & the Saint
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