original title:
Raul: diritto di uccidere
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production:
Ilena Cinematografica, supported by Ministero della Cultura
distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2004
film run:
97'
format:
35mm - colour
aspect ratio:
2.39:1
release date:
15/04/2005
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The film take place in Rome, in May 1938. It is a story of an inner conflict, that is generated by the climate of that time period.
Raul is a young law graduate, unable to find a job as he is not enrolled with the fascist party. He believes in absolute freedom and develops his own theory on "the right to kill".
His few possessions are pawned with a local usurer, that he does not hesitate to kill in the name of his principals. Along with her sister who returns home unexpectedly.
Mariotti, an alcoholic anarchist unable to support his family is accused of the crime.
He will die in an accident in an attempt to avoid arrest.
Raul's guilt begins to increase with Mariotti's death and his growing love for Sonia, Mariotti's daughter.
His search for redemption develops through an intellectual duel with a judge called porfirio who is working on the case.
Porfirio's intuitive mind understands the truth at once and decides to challange him intellectually.
In the end his love for Sonia will prevail and bring him to confess and pay his dues to justice and to his conscience.
Based on Dostoevskji's "Crime and Punishment".
(fonte/source: ilena cinem.)