The Legend of the Holy Drinker

While wandering the Paris streets, alcoholic vagrant Andreas Kartack (Rutger Hauer) is given 200 francs by a kindly stranger...with the only proviso that he someday pay back this gift to the Church, in his benefactor’s name. The deeply moved Andreas swears to clean himself up and make good...but continually finds cruel fate and his own weaknesses bringing him up short of his goal. Ermanno Olmi’s remarkable adaptation of the Joseph Roth novella co-stars Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon. 127 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: Italian Dolby Digital stereo, English DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio, Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English; featurettes; theatrical trailer. In Italian with English subtitles. Two-disc set