Acting
Testone's Michelangelo is all grime and divine torment.
Production
Lived-in Renaissance filth, not polished postcard Italy.
Cinematography
Shadows that swallow souls. Gorgeous and oppressive.
Director
Andrei Konchalovsky
Alberto Testone
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Umberto Orsini
Marchese Malaspina
Nicola Adobati
Lorenzo de Medici duca d'Urbino
Massimo De Francovich
Papa Giulio II
Nicola De Paola
Cardinale Giulio De' Medici
Glen Blackhall
Raffaello
Orso Maria Guerrini
Marchese Malaspina
Alexandra Deynega
Maria
Yuliya Vysotskaya
Dama con l'ermellino
Adriano Chiaramida
Ludovico Buonarroti
Jakob Diehl
Peppe
Ralph Palka
Peppe (voice)
Glen Blackhall
Raphael
Antonio Gargiulo
Francesco Maria della Rovere
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Konchalovsky spent years securing Carrara quarry access; those aren't sets, that's real white marble dust coating everything.
The title refers to Michelangelo's belief that his artistic hubris was literally sinful—his unfinished works were his confession.
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