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MENOCCHIO

By Alberto FASULO

Historical - Completed 2018

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2018

international competition - Special Mention by the Junior Jury

Annecy Cinema Italien 2018

official competition - Grand Prix du Jury

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Historical, Drama
- Countries
- ITALY, ROMANIA
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 104 mn
- Director(s)
- Alberto FASULO
- Writer(s)
- Enrico VECCHI, Alberto FASULO
- Cast
- Marcello MARTINI, Maurizio FANIN, Carlo BALDRACCHI, Nilla PATRIZIO, Emanuele BERTOSSI, Agnese FIOR, Mirko ARTUSO, Giuseppe SCARFÌ, David WILKINSON, Roberto DELLAI, Gino SEGATTI
- Producer(s)
- Nadia TREVISAN (NEFERTITI FILM)
- Synopsis
- Italy, late 16th century. The Roman Catholic Church, feeling threatened in its hegemony by the Protestant reform movement, unleashes the first systematic state war for the total mind control. The new confessional, designed in these very years, is transformed from a space for the consolation of souls to a tribunal of thought. Eavesdropping, spying and denunciation of neighbors are made mandatory, on the pain of excommunication, prison or the pyre. Menocchio, the old, stubborn, self-educated miller of a small village lost in the mountains of Friuli decides to oppose the new order. Accused of heresy, he ignores the pleading of friends and family. Instead of fleeing or standing down, he stands trial. He is not only tired of violence, abuse, taxes and injustice. Menocchio is genuinely convinced that as a man, he is the equal of any bishop, the inquisitors, and even the Pope and hopes, feels and believes he can reconvert them to an ideal of poverty and love.