What is Triumph of the Heart?

COMING SUMMER 2024

Triumph of the Heart is a feature film about
St. Maximilian Kolbe and his companions' triumph over darkness.

We start where the world stops.

Most stories about Kolbe end when he volunteers to take the place of a prisoner in an Auschwitz hunger cell. Our story starts there. In Triumph of the Heart, St. Kolbe joins nine condemned men in a starvation bunker and fights to forge a brotherhood of hope in the darkest place on earth.

More than ever before, young people are struggling with loss of hope: the global suicide rate increased by 30% last year. 

I lost my faith,
and I wanted to die.

My name is Anthony D’Ambrosio. I’m a writer and director of Triumph of the Heart.

I grew up Catholic. Went to seminary. Left seminary. Fell in love.

But just before I got engaged... I got sick.

An undiagnosed medical condition destroyed my life. I couldn't sleep, my relationship ended, I could barely hold down my job, and there was no cure or end in sight. Amid that darkness, I lost my faith, and I wanted to die.

But Kolbe's story stuck with me. As I meditated on how Kolbe built a brotherhood in that dark place, a light broke through. 

I wrote this story to share Kolbe's answer to my suffering and doubt with a world that desperately needs it. Kolbe is a saint for us and for our age. 

-Anthony D’Ambrosio

What’s Our Why?

25% of adults ages 25-30 watch at least 1 movie per day.

The majority of movies and shows paint Catholicism as cultish and oppressive. Worse, they present despair, resentment, lust, and vengeance as heroic. It is time for new Catholic artists to take up the legacy of Flannery O'Connor and J.R.R Tolkien to bring forward stories that inspire hope, inform our culture’s values, and win young people to Christ.

St. Maximilian Kolbe was a Renaissance man—he founded a friary, a magazine, made innovations in modern press technology, and even started the first public fire station operated by a religious order. But when faced with a truly apocalyptic war, St. Kolbe showed us how Christian love can overcome the greatest darkness of the human condition.

A Saint for
the Apocalypse

 FAQs

  • Coming Summer 2024.

  • Our plan is to release the movie in theaters and make it available o n streaming platforms.

  • Become a part of Kolbe’s Militia, and spread the word about this film within your network.

  • Become a part of Kolbe’s Militia, and spread the word about this film within your network.