Carlo Acutis, the life of the millennial saint, is being made into a film starring Samuele Carrino.
Shooting has begun in Milan, the young protagonist of The Boy with the Pink Pants on set with Lucia Mascino in the role of his mother
First take of filming "My Name is Carlo" began in Milan. The story of Carlo Acutis, the saint of millennials who managed to unite faith and young people from all over the world, will be told in a film soon to be broadcast on Canale 5. Filming, directed by Giacomo Campiotti and co-produced by RTI and Skipless, began today in the Lombardy capital.
The role of Carlo will be entrusted to the young Samuele Carrino, who recently won over audiences thanks to his performance in The Boy with Pink Pants as Andrea Spezzacatena, a victim of bullying who took his own life at just 15 years old. Carlo's mother, Antonia Salzano, will be played by Lucia Mascino, a well-known face in TV series such as Suburra, Don Matteo, and the BarLume Crimes.
Milan saw Carlo grow up for most of his short but significant life and will be the first stop on the set, which will move in the coming weeks to Assisi, an iconic spiritual city and pilgrimage destination for thousands of faithful to which Acutis was deeply attached. The film will recount the life of the young saint through three of the key moments of his journey, told over the course of about 100 minutes: Carlo as a six-year-old child, already struck by a religious sensitivity rare for his age. The story moves on to his eleven-year-old self, culminating in his freshman year of high school in 2006, when his life ended prematurely due to fulminant leukemia. "Curious, he wanted to know what was happening in the world; we called him Carlo the questioner." This is how his teachers at the Leone XIII high school in Milan described him. And it's no coincidence that he had a strong passion for computers and the web, which were all the rage in the early 2000s; a passion he used to spread religious content in a new way, becoming a point of reference for many of the younger generations. His testimony has had an increasingly wide resonance even outside Italy, and his spiritual journey culminated with his proclamation as a saint on September 7, 2025, during a solemn celebration in St. Peter's Square in the presence of Pope Leo XIV.
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