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.
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.
