Mother of Tears (2008)


Asia Argento            Sarah Mandy
Daria Nicolodi          Elisa Mandy
Udo Kier                Padre Johannes
Moran Atias             Mater Lacrimarum
Tommaso Banfi           Padre Milesi
Valeria Cavalli         Marta Colussi
Jessica Harper  
Jun Ichikawa            Katerina
Adam James              Michael Pierce
Franco Leo              Monsignor Brusca
Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu Gugliemo De Witt
Clive Riche             Uomo col Cappotto
Silvio Rubino           Elga

Directed by:            Dario Argento
Produced by:            Dario Argento, Claudio Argento


An ancient urn chained to a coffin is unearthed by chance by some men at work along the road bordering 
the Viterbo’s cemetery. The urn contains an age-old tunic and some objects belonging to Mater Lacrimarum, 
the Third Mother (Moran Atias). The only survivor of the Three Mothers - three powerful witches who had 
been shedding blood and terror for aeons - Mater Lacrimarum (the Mother of Tears) has been hiding in 
Rome for centuries and her awakening triggers a chain of mysterious and terrible events: the Evil is 
back to cast its dark shadow over the city.

Sarah Mandy (Asia Argento), a young student of restoration, co-worker and love interest of Michael Pierce 
(Adam James), the curator of the Museum of Ancient Art of Rome, is involved in the escalating and 
increasingly frantic episodes of violence. Sarah tries to run away but she cannot: the Third Mother is 
looking for her and Sarah is not aware of the fact that her mother Elisa Mandy (Daria Nicolodi) was a 
powerful white witch brutally killed by Mater Suspiriorum, the witch from Fryeburg.

Helped by the spirit of her mother, by an eminent esoterism academic, Guglielmo De Witt (Philippe Leroy), 
and by the Chief Constable Marchi (Cristian Solimeno), Sarah realizes that she has no way out and that 
she must face the impending threat.

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An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: 
robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women 
coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of 
Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. 
Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural 
abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.

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The final installment of the "Three Mothers" trilogy. A young American art student, Sarah, "unwittingly 
opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world's most powerful witch. As a scourge of 
suicides plague the city and witches from all over the world converge on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must 
use all her own psychic powers to stop the 'Mother of Tears' before her evil conquers the world."

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While excavating outside of a cemetery in the countryside, the workers accidentally find the coffin of 
the noble Oscar de la Vallée chained to a small urn buried since 1815. Monsignor Brusca orders to rebury 
the coffin inside the cemetery and sends the sealed urn to the director of the Museum of Ancient Art in 
Rome, Michael Pierce, who is an expert in mysticism and occult science, to confirm his fears. However, 
Michael's assistant Giselle Mares decides to open the urn with the student of Art Restoration and Archeology 
and Michael's lover Sarah Mandy. While opening, she hurts her finger and drops blood on a magic red tunic, 
resurrecting the evil witch Mater Lachrymarum, who immediately spreads a wave of violence, death and 
destruction in Rome and attracts witches from everywhere. While visiting Padre Johannes seeking answers, 
Sarah meets Marta Calussi that tells that Mater Lachrymarum is trying to bring the second age of witches 
after the falling of Rome with chaos and human despair. Further, Sarah's mother was a powerful white 
witch that dared to fight against the evil black witch and Sarah has inherited her abilities and is the 
last hope to stop the evil witch.