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Cabrini (2024)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.
Style:
bleak
Plot:
nun, christian faith, prostitute, italian immigrant, poverty, immigrant, business, money, priest, hospital, church, brothel, orphan, kindness, pope, courage, slum, catholic, woman, ambition, festival, mayor, orphanage, archbishop, arson ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1900s, 1880s
Place:
new york
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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