The theater Thuillier Caravaca de la Cruz hosts this Thursday, April 9, at 20.00 the screening of the film "Saint Teresa of Jesus. A life of mystical experience."
This work was filmed on the occasion of V Centenario, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Spanish Television and numerous Spanish institutions, including the City of Caravaca de la Cruz.
Access to the screening will be free.
The documentary, directed by Francisco Rodríguez Fernández, is the result of two years of work.
It was filmed in over 20 scenarios, including almost all the Teresian foundations, with a final 110 minutes.
"So far we have made different productions around Santa Teresa, but had not analyzed in depth through a thorough research on the most important aspects of his life and work, the circumstances that shaped his personality and precariousness your health, the presence of its stroke in the contemporary world and today his legacy both humanistic and religious or literary "says the director.
The intent of the document is to provide the public with current, complete and rigorous view of life and work of a universal character, based on his own writings, in an extensive bibliography covering the most renowned authors and interviews with experts Philology, Medicine, theologians, Modern and Contemporary History, Art History, Bibliographers, Writers and Performing Arts.
With "Teresa" is also intended to give a new vision around the holy and devoid of conventions and suitable for viewers writer today.
The film revolves around different aspects of the life of the Saint on a trial and focuses on the three works that represent a journey through your inner journey, "The Book of Life", "Way of Perfection" and "The Mansions ", from the literary point of view.
His personality, problems dragged from his childhood in relation to different traumatic situations in which he lived, first in their family, then the enormous task it set about the reform of Carmel, whose consequences the continued ill during most of his life.
The viewer will be able to delve into the interior of the closure of the convents to meet their tents, personal belongings, his writings, and his presence in art with the largest deployment of iconography Teresian done so far.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz