alr

Truth and Lies
(La forza del passato)

Screening on Film
Directed by Piergiogio Gay.
With Sergio Rubini, Bruno Ganz, Sandra Ceccarelli.
Italy, 2002, 35mm, color, 98 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

Based on the well-loved novel by Sandro Veronesi The Power of the Past, the film tells the story of children's book author Giovanni Orzan (Rubini). One day, he is visited by Gianni Bogliasco (Ganz), a man who claims to be an old friend of Giovanni's recently deceased father. He also reveals that Orzan's father was not an Italian general, but a Russian-born agent of the KGB who murdered an Italian official and assumed his victim's identity. Rubini and Ganz are inspired in their impassioned exchanges, as each character tries to gain the upper hand in a battle of the wills.

Part of film series

Read more

Matters of Life and Death:
The Films of Bruno Ganz

Current and upcoming film series

Read more

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

Read more

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

Read more

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

Read more

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

Read more

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue

Read more

David Lynch, New Dimensions

Read more

Museum Hours: Mati Diop’s Dahomey

Read more

Albert Serra, or Cinematic Time Regained

Read more

Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy