Cinema at the Institute: Retrospective Nino Manfredi 1921-2004
In Italian, with subtitles in English
Rome, 1867, shortly before the defeat of Garibaldi in Mentone. The barracks of Serristori are blown up, killing 23 Zouaves. Three young revolutionaries are arrested: Gaetano Tognetti, Giuseppe Monti and Caesare Costa. The mother of the latter, the Countess Flaminia resorts to Mgr. Colombo di Priverno, judge of the Sacra Consulta or the supreme criminal court of the Papal States to save him. The Prelate, already in crisis, not of the priestly vocation but of confidence in the necessity of the temporal power and, consequently, willing to resign, learns about the woman with whom he had a son 19 years ago in a turbulent relationship during the troubled times of ’49, intervenes; attains liberation of Cesare and ends up accepting him in the cellar. However, while Tognetti and Monti will be sentenced to death and beheaded, Count Ottavio believes the rumor of a love affair of his wife with the guy; awaits them at the gate and mortally wounds him to avenge his honor. Mgr. Colombo, who delivered a speech in the revolutionary court runs the wrath of the “black pope”, the General of the Jesuits, and is arrested.
Director: Luigi Magni
Cast: Nino Manfredi; Danilo Mattei, Carmen Scarpitta, Ettore Manni, Camillo Milli
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