Miracle of Marcelino

Miracle of Marcelino Spanish Marcelino, pan y vino , Marcelino, bread and wine is a 1955 Spanish film. It was a success, and other countries have produced versions of it. The 1955 film was written by Jos Maria SanchezSilva, who based it on his novel, and directed by Ladislao Vajda. Its stars were Rafael Rivelles, Juan Calvo who also starred together as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the 1947 Spanish film version of Cervantess Don Quixote and the young child star Pablito Calvo no relation to Juan as Marcelino. The background score and the films theme song are by Pablo Sorozbal. The film became the inspiration for the highly praised 2009 Philippine teleserye, May Bukas Pa.citation needed

The story revolves around Marcelino, an orphan abandoned as a baby on the steps of a monastery in nineteenthcentury Spain. The monks raise the child, and Marcelino grows into a rowdy young boy. He has been warned by the monks not to visit the monastery attic, where a supposed bogeyman lives, but he ventures upstairs anyway, sees the bogeyman and tears off back down the stairs.At a festival, Marcelino causes havoc when he accidentally lets some animals loose, and the new local mayor, a blacksmith whom the monks would not let adopt Marcelino because of his coarse behavior, uses the incident as an excuse to try to shut down the monastery. ........

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