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The story of Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, elected to the Italian Parliament seven times, since its establishment in 1946.
In Rome, at dawn, when everyone is sleeping, one man is awake, Andreotti (Toni Servillo). He’s awake because he has to work, write books, move in fashionable circles and pray. Calm, crafty and inscrutable, Andreotti was a synonym of power in Italy for over four decades.
As the ‘90s begin, this impassive yet insinuating, ambiguous yet reassuring figure appears set to assume another term as Prime Minister without arrogance or humility. He emerges unscathed from electoral battles, terrorist massacres, slanderous accusations, untouched by it all – until the strongest counter power in Italy, the Mafia, declares war on him.
IL DIVO is tremendous film that takes the raw subject matter of political biography and presents it with imagination, wit and a holistic view of Andreotti as a symbol of the endemic corruption of the Italian elite.
Winner Jury Prize Cannes Film Festival 2008
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Italy / 2008 / 110mins / Director: Paolo Sorrentino / Cert: 15 / Artificial Eye
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