Caravaggio’s Shadow / L’Ombra di Caravaggio

director – Michele Placido

Caravaggio’s Shadow / L’Ombra di Caravaggio

Сянката на Караваджо

Italy-France, 2022, 120 min.

director – Michele Placido

producer – Federica Vincenti

script – Sandro Petraglia, Fidel Signorile and Michele Placido

camera – Michele D’Atanasio

editor – Consuelo Catucci

production designer – Tonino Zera

costume designer – Carlo Poggioli

A GOLDENART/CHARLOT/LE PACTE/RAI CINEMA/MACT PRODS. Co-production

intl. sales – WILD BUNCH

BG distributor – BETA FILM

cast:

Riccardo Scamarcio (Caravaggio), Louis Garrel (The Shadow), Isabelle Huppert (Costanza Sforza Colonna), Micaela Ramazzotti (Lena Antonietti), Tedua (Cecco), Vinicio Marchioni (Giovanni Baglione), Michele Placido (Cardinal Del Monte)

 

 

Italy 1610. Caravaggio is both one of the most brilliant painters of his time and a rebel against Church rulings that dictate how religious subjects are represented. Having been informed that Caravaggio depicts prostitutes, thieves and vagabonds in his work, Pope Paul V orders the Vatican secret service to investigate, to decide whether to grant the clemency for which the painter has petitioned since being sentenced to death for the murder of a rival in love. The investigator – known as The Shadow - begins the inquiry that will lead him to discover the conflicting vices and virtues of the genius whose life – or death – lies in his hands.