IL DIVO

Paolo SORRENTINO
  • 2008
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films
Jury Prize 2008 , Vulcain Prize for an artist technician, awarded by the C.S.T. 2008

In Rome, at dawn, when everyone is asleep, there’s one man who isn’t sleeping.
That man is called Giulio Andreotti.
He isn’t sleeping because he has to work, write books, be a socialite, and, last but not least, prey.
Calm, ambiguous, inscrutable, Andreotti is synonym of power in Italy for over four decades. At the beginning of the nineties, without arrogance or humility, immobile, ambiguous and reassuring, he advances relentlessly towards his seventh mandate as Prime Minister.
Nearing seventy, Andreotti is a gerontocrat who equipped like God, fears nobody and doesn’t know what fear is: Used as he is to seeing this fear painted on the faces of his interlocutors. His contentment is dry and impalpable. His contentment is power, with which he lives in symbiosis. A power which he likes,

Directed by : Paolo SORRENTINO
Year of production: 2008
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110

Contacts

Secondary Production

  • LUCKY RED Italy

Secondary Production

  • PARCO FILM Italy

Secondary Production

  • BABE FILMS France

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