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DIVO, IL
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DIVO, IL
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Indigo Film, Lucky Red, Parco Film, supported by MiBAC, Babe Film (Paris), in collaboration with Sky
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Italy/France
year:
2008
film run:
110'
format:
35mm - colour
release date:
28/05/2008
festival & awards:
ACADEMY AWARDS 2010: Nomination for Makeup (Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano)
BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Fipresci Award for the Best Film (Ex Aequo)
DAVID DI DONATELLO 2009: Best Cinematography (Luca Bigazzi); Best Actor (Toni Servillo); Best Supporting Role Actress (Piera Degli Esposti); Best Music (Teho Teardo); Best Hair (Aldo Signorotti); Best Makeup (Vittorio Sodano); Best Visual Effects
GLOBI D'ORO 2009: Best Screenplay
HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Italian Landscape 2008
INDIELISBOA 2009: Observatory
NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Feature Film
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Contemporary World Cinema
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Cinema of Our Time
AJACCIO ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Best Actor (Toni Servillo)
BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Film on the Square
CINEMANILA 2008: World Cinema
FESTIVAL DE CANNES 2008: Jury Prize; Prize for tchnical Value - Prix Vulcain to Luca Bigazzi & Angelo Raguseo
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN 2008: Internationales Programm
INTERNATIONL NOIR FILM FESTIVAL OF MANRESA 2008: In Competition: Closing Film
KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Open Eyes (The best of the recent Cannes festival)
TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Best Director of Photography (Luca Bigazzi)
TIFF - TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Special Presentations
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, always immovable and immutable. Where everything, election battles, terrorist massacres, infamous accusations, slide over him through the years without leaving trace. He remains passive and the same as ever before everything. Until the strongest counter power in the country, the Mafia, decides to declare war against him. Then things change. Perhaps also because of the unshakable, enigmatic Andreotti. But, this is the question, do things really change or is it just an illusion? One thing is certain: It is difficult to affect Andreotti, the man who, more than all of us, knows how to get by in the world.
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