Bobbio, Italy. 17th century. Federico, a young priest is called by the ministers of the Holy Inquisition to make sister Benedetta confess, she is accused of seducing and taking a priest to death. The jail where Federico goes will become, centuries later, the home of an old vampire known as the “count”, who will confront with a researcher who helps a Russian millionaire to buy the building. The power, religion, and the ideological values of Italian society are explored in one of the most recent works by Marco Bellocchio; by making this film in two different times, he shows the traces of a country corrupted by hypocrisy and double-standards.

DIRECTOR:

Marco Bellocchio

CAST:

Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lidiya Liberman, Fausto Russo Alesi, Alba Rohrwacher.