Caravaggio's Shadow
- Original title
- L'ombra di Caravaggio
- Year
- 2022
- Running time
- 118 min.
- Country
- Italy
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Riccardo Scamarcio
- Louis Garrel
- Isabelle Huppert
- Micaela Ramazzotti
- Tedua
- Vinicio Marchioni
- Lolita Chammah
- Brenno Placido
- Lorenzo Bianchi
- Alessandro Haber
- Maurizio Donadoni
- Moni Ovadia
- Lorenzo Lavia
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Italy-France;
- Genre
- Drama | 17th Century. Historical. Painting. Religion. Biography
- Synopsis
- Italy circa 1610. At this point in time, Caravaggio is one of the greatest painters alive, but he’s also a rebel when it comes to the laws of a church tasked with deciding which religious subjects are fit for depiction. Upon discovering that the artist uses prostitutes, thieves and vagabonds in his work, Pope Paul V orders the Vatican’s secret services to look into the matter so as to decide whether or not to grant the painter the clemency he requests after being sentenced to death for the murder of a love rival. The inquisitor, known as The Shadow, opens an investigation which will lead him to uncover the conflicting vices and virtues of an artist whose life or death lies in the hands of the former…
- Awards
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2022: David di Donatello Awards (Italy): 2 awards. 5 nominations
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