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2.5/5 Blu-ray Directed by Giuseppe Ferrara Cinematography Federico Del Zoppo Release date 8 March 2002 Director Giuseppe Ferrara Production company Rai Cinema | 6.7/10 IMDb 97% Rotten Tomatoes Music by Pino Donaggio Edited by Adriano Tagliavia Initial release 8 March 2002 (Italy) Music director Pino Donaggio | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Omero Antonutti
Giancarlo Giannini
Alessandro Gassman
Rutger Hauer Screenplay Giuseppe Ferrara, Armenia Balducci Cast Rutger Hauer, Giancarlo Giannini, Omero Antonutti, Pamela Villoresi, Alessandro Gassmann Similar Movies about business, Dramas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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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
Production
The film had a very long and troubled gestation. According to the director Giuseppe Ferrara, he started the project in 1986, soon afterThe Moro Affair, and wanted Gian Maria Volontè in the main role of Roberto Calvi. 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.