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This piercing portrait is a pointed yet subtle reflection on modern Italy, rendered all the more impressive by its meticulous eye for detail.

BFI
  • Festival 40
  • Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
  • Italy 1974
  • 113 minutes
  • Italian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

In the chaos of 19th-century Italy, Fulvio, an aging political revolutionary of noble birth, begins questioning his commitment to the cause. While he secretly desires to return to his place among the aristocracy, Fulvio’s cowardice keeps him from renouncing his anarchist comrades—a situation that sets into motion a series of increasingly dangerous lies and betrayals. 

Marcello Mastroianni handles this complex, antihero role with superb understatement, while the Taviani brothers punctuate the proceedings with hallucinatory, often musical interludes. It all comes wrapped in a painterly visual style and features a typically inspired score by Ennio Morricone.

Filmography: Leonora addio (2022), Wondrous Boccaccio (2015), Caesar Must Die (2012), Elective Affinities (1996), Fiorile (1993), Night Sun (1990), Good Morning, Babylon (1987), Kaos (1984), The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), Father and Master (1977)

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  • Director Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
  • Production Giuliani G. De Negri
  • Script Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
  • Cinematography Giuseppe Ruzzolini
  • Editing Roberto Perpignani
  • Music Ennio Morricone
  • Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer, Laura Betti
  • Source Surf Film

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