Another film by Marco Belocchio is Hello Night (originally Good Morning, Night)/Buongiorno, notte, 2003. I understand that this topic is very interesting for Belocchio, because he first made this film, and in 2022 he developed it in the series “Night on the street” / Esterno notte.
The film is dedicated to such a well-known and repeatedly
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Another film by Marco Belocchio is Hello Night (originally Good Morning, Night)/Buongiorno, notte, 2003. I understand that this topic is very interesting for Belocchio, because he first made this film, and in 2022 he developed it in the series “Night on the street” / Esterno notte. The film is dedicated to such a well-known and repeatedly discussed in Italy event as the kidnapping and murder of Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades in 1978. The film also uses the book by Laura Braghetti, who once served in the Red Brigades and served as the prototype of Chiara. We see four members of the brigades, three of whom organized all this, the fourth – the girl Chiara (Maya Sansa), who helps them, there were many more participants in this action, but the exact number of them could not be determined. Everything was well prepared, they rented and cached the apartment, in which they then kept Moreau for about two months. They kept waiting for the government to respond to their ultimatum, but the government was slow, there were numerous rallies, even the Pope appealed to the kidnappers to release Moro. All this time Moro wrote letters (he wrote 86 letters), primarily to his wife, as well as others, some reached the addressees, others were later discovered, including for the Pope, he was left in the cathedral in a donation box, however, then someone doubted that Moro (his role is played by Roberto Herlitzka) wrote them himself. The leader of the group Mariano (Luigi Lo Cacho) regularly communicated with Moro, we see these verbal fights, and Moro looks very worthy. It is true that the terrorists did not mock him, but the leader’s confidence in their rightness could not be shaken, he persistently pronounces these speeches concerning the necessity of the victory of the proletariat, although the members of the group gradually began to doubt the appropriateness of this act. The story of the film includes many documentary footage of the time, we also see the dreams of Chiara, in which fantasies, including that she helps Moro escape, mixed with memories. The murder (or execution, as the terrorists called it) took place, and then all the terrorists were caught and received different terms, some and life, which was later replaced by milder terms. The film is good, the actors are good, even Sansa I liked in this film, although in some other films she annoyed me. I don’t know if I’m going to watch the show, but if I am, it won’t be right away. There are a lot of publications on this topic, some of which I have read.
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