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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair

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This article is about the 2002 Italian film. "The Bankers of God" redirects here. For the "banker of god", see Roberto Calvi. For the bank of that banker, see Banco Ambrosiano.

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Directed byGiuseppe Ferrara
StarringOmero Antonutti
Giancarlo Giannini
Alessandro Gassman
Rutger Hauer
CinematographyFederico Del Zoppo
Edited byAdriano Tagliavia
Music byPino Donaggio
Release date
  • 8 March 2002 (2002-03-08)
LanguageItalian

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

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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

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Production

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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]

See also

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References

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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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