Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine

*Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine*
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Screenplay by	;
Story by	Gianmario Pagano
Directed by	Christian Duguay
Starring	Alessandro Preziosi; Monica Guerritore; Alexander Held; ; ;
Music by	Andrea Guerra
Country of origin	Italy; Germany
Original language	English
Production
Producers	; ; ; ; ; ; ; Krzysztof Grabowski; ; ;
Cinematography
Editors	; ;
Running time	205 minutes
Distributor	; Magyar Televízió; ; RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
Release
Original release	31 January 2010

Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine (distributed in the US as: Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire, Italian: Sant'Agostino) is a 2010 two-part television miniseries chronicling the life of St. Augustine,^[1] the early Christian theologian, writer and Bishop of Hippo Regius at the time of the Vandal invasion (AD 430).^[2]^[3]^[4]

This series was directed by Christian Duguay and was shot on location in Tunisia.

Plot[]

In 430 AD, in the besieged city of Hippo, the seventy year-old bishop Augustine tells Jovinus, a captain of the Roman guards, the story of how his Christian mother, Monica, saved him. Born in the North African city of Thagaste, Augustine studied in Carthage, becoming an accomplished but dissolute orator. After converting to Manichaeism, a guiltfree religion, he was called to the imperial court in Milan to serve as an opponent to the Christian bishop Ambrose. But when the Empress Justina sends imperial guards to clear out a basilica where Augustine's own mother is worshipping, he is won over to Christianity. Back in Hippo, Augustine urges the Roman garrison to negotiate with the Vandal King Genseric, but they proudly refuse. At that point, he too, passing up a chance to escape on a ship sent to rescue him by the Pope, stays by the side of his people.