Il Divo: The Spectacular Life of Guilo Andreotti

A compelling, riveting, award-winning, political film that chronicles the corrupt, powerful, scandalous, famous, and infamous life of seven-times Prime Minister Guilo Andreotti (Toni Servillo), also known as "The Sphinx," "The Hunchback," "The Black Pope," "The Fox," "The Salamander," "Man of Darkness," "Beelzebub," "The Divine Julius," and "The First Letter of the Alphabet," who was the leader of the Christian Democrat Party, who justified evil deeds to do good, who allegedly had ties to the Mafia (Enzo Rai, et al.), who was credited either directly or indirectly to the attacks of more than 817 victims and to the murders of more than 236 people (such as his rival and Prime Minister Aldo Moro) between 1964 and 1984, and astonishingly the Italian government eventually tried and acquitted him of conspiracy, corruption, and murder and made him a senator for life in 1991.
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