original title:
Menocchio
directed by:
cast:
Marcello Martini, Maurizio Fanin, Carlo Baldracchi, Nilla Patrizio, Emanuele Bertossi, Agnese Fior, Mirko Artuso, Giuseppe Scarfì, David Wilkinson, Roberto Dellai, Gino Segatti, Roberta Potrich
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
Paolo Forte
producer:
production:
Nefertiti Film, Rai Cinema, Hai-Hui Entertainment, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of l’Audiovisivo del Friuli Venezia Giulia, CNC ‐ Centrul National al Cinematografiei, Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission, Trentino Film Commission
distribution:
Nefertiti Film [Italy], SBS [Australia], HBO Europe [Bosnia and Herzegovina], HBO Europe [Bulgaria], HBO Europe [Croatia], HBO Europe [Czech Republic], YLE [Finland], Rouge Distribution [France], HBO Europe [Hungary], HBO Europe [Moldova], HBO Europe [Montenegro], HBO Europe [North Macedonia], HBO Europe [Poland], HBO Europe [Romania], HBO Europe [Serbia], HBO Europe [Slovakia], HBO Europe [Slovenia], Amazon Prime Video [United Kingdom], Amazon Prime Video [United States]
world sales:
country:
Italy/Romania
year:
2018
film run:
103'
format:
DCP - colour
aspect ratio:
2.35:1
release date:
08/11/2018
festivals & awards:
Italy. Late 1500s, counter-reformation – the genesis of the battle between the power of the Church of Rome and the local authorities. The battlefield is the conscience of the faithful and the instrument is confession. The objective: total control over the soul, more so even than the body. Nothing, absolutely nothing must escape the ears of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, not even heresy pronounced by a miller in a little village in the middle of nowhere in the north of Friuli at the foot of the, ironically named, “Spy Mountain”. Arrested, tried and sentenced to life in prison for having thought and said things like “loving one’s neighbor is a more important dictate than loving God,” Menocchio withstands his trial without betraying anybody. He survives two years in prison and is released seriously ill, but he heals, works, fights, loves, suffers and lives… until Pope Clemente VIII himself orders him arrested again, and executed.