The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
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| Directed by | Giuseppe Ferrara |
| Starring | Omero Antonutti Giancarlo Giannini Alessandro Gassman Rutger Hauer |
| Music by | Pino Donaggio |
| Cinematography | Federico Del Zoppo |
| Editing by | Adriano Tagliavia |
| Release date(s) | 8 March 2002 |
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (Italian: I banchieri di Dio also known as The God's Bankers) is an Italian drama film directed in 2002 by Giuseppe Ferrara.
The film tells the story of the scandal of Banco Ambrosiano, mainly related to the figure of Roberto Calvi. The Clearstream scandal exploded as a case full of intricate affairs involving the financial world, the Vatican, the Masonic Lodge P2, the Italian Secret Service, the Secret Intelligence Service, the Italian politics, the Mafia and the Banda della Magliana.
The movie narrates in detail all these connections, trying to reconstruct events and plots. The film ends with the death of Calvi under the Blackfriars Bridge, in London, openly supporting the murder-hypothesis.
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[edit] Cast
- Omero Antonutti: Roberto Calvi
- Giancarlo Giannini: Flavio Carboni
- Alessandro Gassman: Francesco Pazienza
- Rutger Hauer: Vescovo Paul Marcinkus
- Pamela Villoresi: Clara Calvi
- Vincenzo Peluso: Silvano Vittor
- Pier Paolo Capponi: Roberto Rosone
- Franco Diogene: Luigi Mennini
- Camillo Milli: Licio Gelli
- Franco Olivero: Michele Sindona
[edit] Production
The film had a very long and troubled gestation. According to the director Giuseppe Ferrara, he started the project in the 1986, soon afterThe Moro Affair, and wanted Gian Maria Volontè in the main role of Roberto Calvi.[1] After a final rejection of the project in 1991 by producers Silvio Berlusconi and Vittorio Cecchi Gori, and with the Ferrara's intention of throwing it in the towel, the interest of Rai Cinema has finally made carrying the project 15 years later, in 2001.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "Calvi, in un film l'Italia dei misteri". Central do Cinema. http://www.centraldocinema.it/Recensioni/16/a/banchieri%20di%20dio.htm. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- ^ Giuliano Gallo (26 February 2002). ""I misteri del caso Calvi, la mia ossessione"". Corriere della Sera. http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2002/febbraio/26/misteri_del_caso_Calvi_mia_co_0_0202264716.shtml. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
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