Romanzo di una strage
Directed by:
Marco Tullio GiordanaCinematography:
Roberto ForzaCast:
Valerio Mastandrea, Pierfrancesco Favino, Michela Cescon, Giorgio Colangeli, Laura Chiatti, Fabrizio Gifuni, Omero Antonutti, Luigi Lo Cascio (more)Plots(1)
Marco Tullio Giordana (The Best of Youth) delivers a Machiavellian drama, based on a book by Paolo Cucchiarelli, which dissects the Piazza Fontana bombing, highlighting the manipulations and tragic consequences of the event and subsequent investigations. An explosion at the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Milan in 1969 resulted in 17 deaths and injured dozens more. The protests sweeping Europe and the fear of communism led the police to focus their investigations on anarchist groups. But the Police Commissioner is convinced it's not that simple. When known non-violent protestor Giuseppe Pinelli dies in police custody, Calabresi's enquiries reveal a conspiracy to discredit the Left by foreign and state governments, the police, the secret service through to neo-fascists.
Intriguingly complicated and politically nuanced, Romanzo di una strage is an ever-twisting conspiracy of lies, intrigue and dirty politics. The meticulously staged real life story is both enthralling and gripping.
(Adopt Films)
Reviews (1)
In 1969, the political situation in Italy was complicated. There were even a few bombings. Although the culprits still have not been tracked down, someone has made a film about the investigation and the obscuring of the truth at the highest levels... A film with thirty characters of varying political creeds and degrees of importance relation to the incident, about whom, however, we will learn nothing from the human perspective. Which makes me – a viewer not interested in Italian postwar history – ask what such a film, particularly one of only average quality, has to offer me?
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