Pope Leo XIV on Thursday met Roberto Benigni ahead of the Life Is Beautiful star's latest TV monologue, on St Peter.
This afternoon at the Vatican Apostolic Palace, Leo met with Benigni, along with Giampaolo Rossi, CEO of RAI, and Simona Ercolani, CEO and creative director of Stand by Me, the producer, together with Vatican Media, of the monologue "Peter, a Man in the Wind," which will be broadcast on Rai1 on December 10th in prime time and which had its world premiere this morning at the MAXXI Museum in Rome.
The Pope, according to the Vatican Press Office, saw excerpts of the monologue.
"How beautiful, it speaks of love," he commented at the end.
During the meeting, before the screening, the Pope and Benigni discussed cinema and "Life is Beautiful," which the Pope recently listed among his four favorite films, and Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." The Pope and Benigni discussed the lives of St.
