The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Directed by	Giuseppe Ferrara
Starring	Omero Antonutti; Giancarlo Giannini; Alessandro Gassman; Rutger Hauer
Cinematography	Federico Del Zoppo
Edited by	Adriano Tagliavia
Music by	Pino Donaggio
Release date	8 March 2002;
Language	Italian

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.

Plot

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.

Cast

Omero Antonutti as Roberto Calvi
Giancarlo Giannini as Flavio Carboni
Alessandro Gassman as Francesco Pazienza
Rutger Hauer as Bishop Paul Marcinkus
Pamela Villoresi as Clara Calvi
Vincenzo Peluso as Silvano Vittor
Pier Paolo Capponi as Roberto Rosone
Franco Diogene as Luigi Mennini
Camillo Milli as Licio Gelli
Franco Olivero as Michele Sindona

Production

The film had a very long and troubled development. According to the director Giuseppe Ferrara, he started the project in 1986, soon after The Moro Affair, and wanted Gian Maria Volonté 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 Ferrara's intention of throwing in the towel, the interest of Rai Cinema finally made the project possible 15 years later, in 2001.^[2]

In the same year, it was published also the omonymous Italian book of Mario Almerighi.^[3]

References

^ "Calvi, in un film l'Italia dei misteri". Central do Cinema. Archived from the original on 20 April 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
^ Giuliano Gallo (26 February 2002). "I misteri del caso Calvi, la mia ossessione". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
^ Almerighi, Mario; Marco Travaglio (preface); Giuseppe Ferrara (afterword) (2002). I banchieri di Dio: il caso Calvi. Rome: Editori Riuniti. p. 224. ISBN 9788835981596. OCLC 2002419675.

External links

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair at IMDb

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[1] "Calvi, in un film l'Italia dei misteri". Central do Cinema. Archived from the original on 20 April 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2011.

[2] Giuliano Gallo (26 February 2002). "I misteri del caso Calvi, la mia ossessione". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 24 November 2011.

[3] Almerighi, Mario; Marco Travaglio (preface); Giuseppe Ferrara (afterword) (2002). I banchieri di Dio: il caso Calvi. Rome: Editori Riuniti. p. 224. ISBN 9788835981596. OCLC 2002419675.

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