Directed by:
Marco BellocchioScreenplay:
Marco BellocchioCinematography:
Daniele CiprìComposer:
Carlo CrivelliCast:
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lidiya Liberman, Roberto Herlitzka, Alba Rohrwacher, Federica Fracassi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Filippo Timi, Ivan Franěk (more)Plots(1)
The film opens with some startling imagery. A bearded man arrives at a monastery to find a nun hanging from the ceiling from her feet. Federico Mai (Filippo Timi) has come on a mission: his brother committed suicide and cannot be buried in consecrated ground unless his lover, Sister Benedetta (Alba Rohrwacher), confesses to their sin, thereby saving the dead man's soul. Benedetta is subjected to trials by water and fire and questioning by the apostolic hierarchy, whilst Federico watches - and hopes. Yet his vigil takes a strange turn. Ruptures in time project us into the present day, in which a Russian wants to buy the monastery where Benedetta's torture occurred. Living in the monastery is a strange assortment of people, among them a Count and a woman whose husband has disappeared. But this is just the beginning of the mystery. (Toronto International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio
Italy
Best movies:
Good Morning, Night (2003)
The Traitor (2019)
La figlia di Elisa - Ritorno a Rivombrosa (2007) (series)
Lidiya Liberman
Best movies:
Blood of My Blood (2015)
Roberto Herlitzka
Italy
Best movies:
Seven Beauties (1975)
Love and Anarchy (1973)
The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
Alba Rohrwacher
Italy
Best movies:
Perfect Strangers (2016)
My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
The Place (2017)
Federica Fracassi
Best movies:
Couch Potatoes (2017)
Radioactive (2019)
There Will Come a Day (2013)
Fausto Russo Alesi
Best movies:
The Traitor (2019)
Kidnapped (2023)
The Double Hour (2009)
Filippo Timi
Italy
Best movies:
The Eight Mountains (2022)
Kidnapped (2023)
The Double Hour (2009)
Ivan Franěk
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Department 36 (2004)
The Great Beauty (2013)
Chaos (2001)
Bruno Cariello
Best movies:
Giuseppe Moscati: L'amore che guarisce (2007) (TV movie)
Padre Pio: Miracle Man (2000) (TV movie)
Non è mai troppo tardi (2014) (TV movie)
Toni Bertorelli
Italy
Best movies:
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
L'onore e il rispetto (2006) (series)
Blood of My Blood (2015)
Alberto Cracco
Best movies:
Il Divo (2008)
Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini (2007) (TV movie)
Good Morning, Night (2003)
Elena Bellocchio
Best movies:
Blood of My Blood (2015)
Patrizia Bettini
Best movies:
Blood of My Blood (2015)
Sebastiano Filocamo
Best movies:
Blood of My Blood (2015)
The Binding (2020)
Alberto Bellocchio
Italy
Best movies:
Blood of My Blood (2015)
Jacopo Garfagnoli
Best movies:
The Traitor (2019)
Blood of My Blood (2015)