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Il Divo
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Title: Il Divo

Release Date: 28 May 2008

Runtime: 1h 53m

Genre: Drama

Director: Indigo Film, Lucky Red, Parco Film, StudioCanal, ARTE France Cinéma, Sky Cinema, MiC, Film Commission Torino Piemonte, Regione Campania, Campania Film Commission, CNC, Babe Films, Beta Film, Eurimages

Production Companies: Indigo Film, Lucky Red, Parco Film, StudioCanal, ARTE France Cinéma, Sky Cinema, MiC, Film Commission Torino Piemonte, Regione Campania, Campania Film Commission, CNC, Babe Films, Beta Film, Eurimages

Overview: Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

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Average Vote: 7.633 (1126 votes)

Cast

  • Giulio Andreotti: Toni Servillo
  • Livia Danese: Anna Bonaiuto
  • Eugenio Scalfari: Giulio Bosetti
  • Franco Evangelisti: Flavio Bucci
  • Paolo Cirino Pomicino: Carlo Buccirosso
  • Salvo Lima: Giorgio Colangeli
  • Don Mario Canciani: Alberto Cracco
  • Signora Enea: Piera Degli Esposti
  • Mino Pecorelli: Lorenzo Gioielli
  • Aldo Moro: Paolo Graziosi
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