Il Divo
Paolo Sorrentino
   

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   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.
 

 
 

original title:

DIVO, IL

directed by:

Paolo Sorrentino

cast:

Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Piera Degli Esposti, Giulio Bosetti, Paolo Graziosi, Flavio Bucci, Carlo Buccirosso, Giorgio Colangeli, Alberto Cracco, Lorenzo Gioielli, Gianfelice Imparato, Massimo Popolizio, Aldo Ralli, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Fanny Ardant

screenplay:

Paolo Sorrentino

cinematography:

Luca Bigazzi

editing:

Cristiano Travaglioli

set design:

Lino Fiorito

costume design:

Daniela Ciancio

music:

Theo Teardo

producer:

Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano, Andrea Occhipinti, Maurizio Cappolecchia, Fabio Conversi, produttore associato Stefano Bonfanti

production:

Indigo Film, Lucky Red, Paco Cinematografica, supported by MiBAC, Babe Film (Paris), in collaboration with Sky

distributor:

LUCKY RED

world sales:

BETA CINEMA

country:

Italy/France

year:

2008

film run:

110'

format:

35mm - colour

release date:

28/05/2008

festival & awards:

BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Fipresci Award for the Best Film (Ex Aequo)

BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA 2009

CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: World Cinema

CPH:PIX NEW COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Revolutions

HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Italian Landscape 2008

INDIELISBOA 2009: Observatory

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM 2009: Spectrum

INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Akbank Galas

JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Best Director

NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Feature Film

PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: World Focus

PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: World Cinema

SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: World Cinema

TOKYO ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Panorama

URUGUAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Focus Italy

VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Cinema of Our Time

AJACCIO ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Best Actor (Toni Servillo)

ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - OPENING NIGHTS 2008: Premiers

AUSTRALIA - ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Panorama

BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Opening Film

CANNES 2008: Jury Prize; Prize for tchnical Value - Prix Vulcain to Luca Bigazzi & Angelo Raguseo

CINEMA MEDITERRANÉEN MONTPELLIER 2008: Opening Film

CINEMANILA 2008: World Cinema

CINESSONNE 2008: In Competition

DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Focus Italy

FESTIVAL DO RIO 2008: Panorama

FILMFEST MÜNCHEN 2008: Internationales Programm

FLANDERS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL GENT 2008: Out of Competition

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BRATISLAVA 2008: Off the Mainstream

INTERNATIONL NOIR FILM FESTIVAL OF MANRESA 2008: In Competition: Closing Film

JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Panorama

KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Open Eyes (The best of the recent Cannes festival)

LUBIANA FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Panorama

MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA AND NEW MEDIA 2008: Special Presentation

PUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: World Cinema

SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Perspective

SEVILLA FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Eurimages Award

TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Best Director of Photography (Luca Bigazzi)

THE TIMES BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Film on the Square

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Special Presentations

VILLERUPT'S ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2008: In Competition