Todo modo

Todo modo is an Italian crime film / political thriller directed by Elio Petri 's 1976 with Gian Maria Volonte and Marcello Mastroianni in the lead roles, after the novel by Leonardo Sciascia

Action

While a vehicle with a siren warns the public against an epidemic, which have already fallen some people to sacrifice, leading politicians, industrialists, bankers, and other members of the Christian party, like every year, on a foreclosed, located underground place in exam issued - San Ignazio di Loyola, a centuries- Order, which is considered the source of spiritual renewal for the ruling castes long time. Even on the eve of " M. ", the Italian president, who is the Head of the Order, Father Don Gaetano, greeted and directed to his room appears. Secretly M. has smuggled his wife into the subterranean vaults, in her room waiting for him.

It comes to first disagreement, as Voltrano, the right hand of Don Gaetano, with some politicians do not want to sit at the same table, because he holds for thieves and scammers and give them the serious intention to fast einzufinden here waiving its privileges denies, . In fact, most politicians have no interest in Spartan life, but meet to agree on joint strategies and to strengthen their own position, but appear as the first deaths, they start to get nervous. Is it the epidemic, which has also found at this place, or drives one of them on the loose? - Whenever you think you have transferred a suspect dies this even a short time later. Given the increasing number of deaths that occur always sudden, panic begins to run rampant, which means that the last survivors, including M. escape from the catacombs, but they can not save.

Background

Todo Modo was the second collaboration with Elio Petri's Leonardo Sciascia, whose novel two coffins on order ( A ciascuno il suo ) he had made ​​into a film in 1967. As in his parallel filmed by Francesco Rosi 's novel The Power and the price ( Cadaveri eccellenti ) was no longer Sciascia's view of his native Sicily, but the general Italian political situation, here the example of the political and economic elite of Italy, under the leadership of M. , which is clearly concerned about Aldo Moro. Through his assassination in 1978, his death in Todo modo got an unwanted tragic component that led to Todo modo for decades disappeared from the Italian media.

Also, Gian Maria Volonte the this character in 1986 in The Aldo Moro Affair ( Il caso Moro ) a second time constituted, also back after a drawing by Leonardo Sciascia, can only be understood as a correction of his first interpretation. Aldo Moro test, mid-70s, to form a coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Communist Party - Historical become known under the term compromise ( Compromesso storico ) - found not only in right-wing circles but also among followers of the Communist Party a lot of criticism, the was crucial for the design of its role in Todo modo. Unlike other politicians, clergy and business leaders, was indeed granted him to be interested not only in the increase of their own power, at the same time but was abandoned in his bigotry of ridicule. Ten years later, it became clear how much Gian Maria Volonte of this design took distance.

Awards

'Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 1976

  • Award ( Silver Ribbon ) for Best Supporting Actor, Ciccio Ingrassia
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