Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
Acting
Toni Servillo's physical transformation into a human gargoyle
Direction
Sorrentino's baroque compositions make politics grotesquely beautiful
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a corrupted Renaissance painting
Director
Paolo Sorrentino
Toni Servillo
Giulio Andreotti
Anna Bonaiuto
Livia Danese
Giulio Bosetti
Eugenio Scalfari
Flavio Bucci
Franco Evangelisti
Carlo Buccirosso
Paolo Cirino Pomicino
Giorgio Colangeli
Salvo Lima
Alberto Cracco
Don Mario Canciani
Piera Degli Esposti
Signora Enea
Lorenzo Gioielli
Mino Pecorelli
Paolo Graziosi
Aldo Moro
Gianfelice Imparato
Vincenzo Scotti
Massimo Popolizio
Vittorio Sbardella
Aldo Ralli
Giuseppe Ciarrapico
Giovanni Vettorazzo
Judge Scarpinato
Orazio Alba
Gaspare Mutolo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andreotti was nicknamed 'Beelzebub' and 'The Sphinx' by Italian press; Sorrentino leans into both, filming him like a horror icon.
Servillo studied Andreotti's actual parliamentary speeches and adopted his hunched posture, whispered delivery, and refusal to move his upper body when speaking.
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