Historias del Rosario

Now and at the hour of death

A young American soldier has just been seriously injured. He suffers, but he is calm. With his clenched fist, dirty with blood, he raises a rosary… For the directors Mariusz Pilis and Dariusz Walusiak, the story of this photograph becomes an inspiration to embark on a journey of several months across four continents to check if – as the Catholics say – the recitation of the rosary can change the course of history.

Is it true that a crusade of the rosary caused the Soviet troops to withdraw from Austria, and that the prayer of the rosary of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators caused the fall of Fernando Marcos in the Philippines? Will the mystical vision of the Nigerian bishop say that Boko Haram in his country would be defeated thanks to the prayer of the Rosary? Will a million white rosaries restore peace in Ukraine? This is the great epic story about the power of the rosary, intertwined with the destiny of the world and of people…

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(With English subtitles)