L’ombra di Caravaggio
Direction: Michele Placido
Plot. Italy 1600. Michelangelo Merisi is a brilliant artist and a rebel against the rules dictated by the Council of Trent, which drew exact coordinates in the representation of sacred art. After learning that Caravaggio used prostitutes, thieves and vagabonds in his sacred paintings, Pope Paul V decides to commission a secret Vatican agent to carry out a proper investigation, to decide whether to grant the pardon the painter asked for after he was sentenced to death for killing his rival in love in a duel. So the Shadow, this is the name of the investigator, starts his activities of inquiry and espionage to investigate the painter who-with his life and his art-fascinates, upsets, subverts. A Shadow who will have in his hands absolute power, of life and death, over the fate of a genius.
