1 00:02:21,975 --> 00:02:26,812 "You have six months left," said the army doctor when I was called up. 2 00:02:26,938 --> 00:02:31,358 Years Iater, l Iooked him up: l wanted him to see l was alive, 3 00:02:31,484 --> 00:02:33,819 but he was dead. 4 00:02:33,945 --> 00:02:36,029 It always went that way. 5 00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:39,700 They'd predict my demise, and l'd survive. 6 00:02:39,826 --> 00:02:42,578 They'd die instead. 7 00:02:42,704 --> 00:02:47,457 On the other hand, l've suffered splitting headaches all my life. 8 00:02:47,584 --> 00:02:52,754 Now I'm using a Chinese remedy, but I've tried everything. 9 00:02:52,881 --> 00:02:57,551 In its day, the drug Optalidon Iooked reaIIy promising. 10 00:02:57,677 --> 00:03:02,764 I even sent a supply to a journalist: Mino Pecorelli. 11 00:03:04,601 --> 00:03:07,352 He's dead, too. 12 00:03:07,478 --> 00:03:12,399 THE SPECTACULAR LIFE OF GIULIO ANDREOTTI 13 00:03:20,074 --> 00:03:21,825 "The Premier's Checks" 14 00:04:32,063 --> 00:04:33,897 ROBERTO CALVI. BANKER JUNE 1 7, 1 982 15 00:04:40,405 --> 00:04:42,864 MICHELE SINDONA. BANKER MARCH 22, 1986 16 00:04:45,076 --> 00:04:47,995 MINO PECORELLI. JOURNALIST MARCH 20, 1979 17 00:04:49,580 --> 00:04:52,749 CARLO ALBERTO DALLA CHIESA CARABINIERI GENERAL, SEPT 3, 1982 18 00:04:54,585 --> 00:04:57,796 GIORGIO AMBROSOLI. LIQUIDATOR "PRIVATA ITALIANA" BANK, JULY 12, 1979 19 00:04:58,881 --> 00:05:02,801 ALDO MORO DC PRESIDENT, MAY 9, 1978 20 00:05:21,404 --> 00:05:27,367 GIOVANNI FALCONE MAGISTRATE - MAY 23, 1992 21 00:05:38,504 --> 00:05:41,757 ROME. THE EARLY '90s 22 00:07:41,210 --> 00:07:45,172 "Massacres and conspiracies are the work of Craxi and Andreotti" 23 00:08:52,657 --> 00:08:56,535 - What time did you wake up, Giulio? - 4:30. 24 00:08:56,661 --> 00:08:58,870 The great La Pira would wake at 3:30. 25 00:08:58,996 --> 00:09:01,540 He was a saint. I'm a sinner. 26 00:09:01,666 --> 00:09:05,585 - How many times, Giulio? - As of today, seven. 27 00:09:05,711 --> 00:09:09,172 Seven times Premier, twenty-five times minister. 28 00:09:09,298 --> 00:09:12,467 I never had such an illustrious parishioner. 29 00:09:12,593 --> 00:09:15,720 We're all illustrious in God's eyes. 30 00:09:15,846 --> 00:09:17,764 Montanelli said: 31 00:09:17,890 --> 00:09:20,475 "De Gasperi and Andreotti went to mass together. 32 00:09:20,601 --> 00:09:25,605 "Everyone thought they did the same thing, but it wasn't so. 33 00:09:25,731 --> 00:09:30,569 In church, De Gasperi talked to God. Andreotti talked to the priest." 34 00:09:30,695 --> 00:09:33,238 Priests vote. 35 00:09:33,364 --> 00:09:35,699 God doesn't. 36 00:09:36,742 --> 00:09:40,829 Mario, I want to confess. 37 00:09:40,955 --> 00:09:43,081 Of course, Giulio. 38 00:09:56,596 --> 00:09:58,471 Premier, don't slouch. 39 00:09:58,598 --> 00:10:01,600 I'm comfortable like this. 40 00:10:14,363 --> 00:10:17,866 Premier, storm clouds are gathering. 41 00:10:42,475 --> 00:10:47,604 PRESS AGENTS OF PAOLO CIRINO POMICINO 42 00:10:47,730 --> 00:10:50,231 CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER aIias "THE MINISTER" 43 00:10:57,907 --> 00:11:02,494 FRANCO EVANGELISTI - ANDREOTTI'S RIGHT-HAND MAN alias "THE LEMON" 44 00:11:07,458 --> 00:11:09,334 Hello... 45 00:11:12,505 --> 00:11:16,174 Yes, excuse me. 46 00:11:20,304 --> 00:11:23,765 GIUSEPPE CIARRAPICO BUSINESSMAN alias "CIARRA" 47 00:11:45,538 --> 00:11:49,374 VITTORIO SBARDELLA DC MP alias "THE SHARK" 48 00:11:59,885 --> 00:12:02,512 CARDINAL FIORENZO ANGELINI aIias "HIS HEALTHINESS" 49 00:12:16,527 --> 00:12:20,739 THE ANDREOTTI FACTION OF THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS 50 00:12:32,126 --> 00:12:34,919 Fiorenzo, sit on the throne. 51 00:12:36,338 --> 00:12:38,173 How's the Pope doing? 52 00:12:38,299 --> 00:12:39,591 I was on TV yesterday. 53 00:12:39,717 --> 00:12:43,636 There was talk of priests in trouble. I quoted Pius XI. 54 00:12:43,763 --> 00:12:47,098 Whenever they mentioned a priest in trouble to him, 55 00:12:47,224 --> 00:12:50,268 he always said the same five words. 56 00:12:50,394 --> 00:12:53,897 - What? - "What is the lady's name?" 57 00:12:55,441 --> 00:12:58,777 - The Lad's in good form. - Thank you for calling me "lad." 58 00:12:58,903 --> 00:13:03,907 The usual nasty journalist pushed the same old button: 59 00:13:04,033 --> 00:13:08,703 My faction... according to her, it's teeming with bad company. 60 00:13:08,829 --> 00:13:10,955 What did you reply? 61 00:13:11,081 --> 00:13:15,627 One can never be too cautious about the company one keeps. 62 00:13:15,753 --> 00:13:20,340 After all, Jesus had Judas amongst his discipIes. 63 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:27,430 - What's eating you, Salvo? - Nothing. 64 00:13:27,556 --> 00:13:33,645 Rome's so beautiful. And it's so calm too. 65 00:13:33,771 --> 00:13:39,984 Fiorenzo, I'd Iike Tedax to stay in the pharmaceutical codex. 66 00:13:40,110 --> 00:13:43,154 It's relieving the suffering of many. 67 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,157 Giulio, Tedax is problematic. It doesn't... 68 00:13:46,283 --> 00:13:48,993 Tell me about my favorite pony. 69 00:13:49,119 --> 00:13:51,496 Craxi was on the warpath. He kept yelling: 70 00:13:51,622 --> 00:13:55,250 "I'd sooner cut my balls off than see your Mazza as bank president." 71 00:13:55,376 --> 00:13:58,920 - Who got the job? - Our Mazza. 72 00:13:59,046 --> 00:14:01,548 Have you already asked Craxi to comply? 73 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,470 It's relieving the suffering of many. 74 00:14:07,596 --> 00:14:09,764 Giulio, I need to talk to you in private. 75 00:14:09,890 --> 00:14:13,268 And Vittorio also has ideas about the faction 76 00:14:13,394 --> 00:14:18,273 that not only differ from ours, but they're excessive too. 77 00:14:20,276 --> 00:14:28,783 I propose... to arrange in a more widely distributed manner... 78 00:14:28,909 --> 00:14:32,203 that would only be difficult... 79 00:14:32,329 --> 00:14:35,248 Boys, behave yourselves. 80 00:14:35,374 --> 00:14:38,710 Today is the inception of the 7th Andreotti government. 81 00:14:38,836 --> 00:14:42,213 Today's a day of celebration. 82 00:14:42,339 --> 00:14:43,590 Let's all behave. 83 00:14:43,716 --> 00:14:47,051 SALVO LIMA DC MP alias "HIS EXCELLENCY" 84 00:14:47,177 --> 00:14:49,596 Today's a day of celebration. 85 00:14:55,477 --> 00:14:57,812 Good morning, Premier. Do you know the way? 86 00:14:57,938 --> 00:15:01,608 It's vaguely familiar, thank you. 87 00:16:18,811 --> 00:16:22,772 The President of the Republic, Francesco Cossiga. 88 00:16:41,291 --> 00:16:43,418 THE 7TH ANDREOTTI GOVERNMENT 89 00:16:45,629 --> 00:16:48,881 Premier... 90 00:17:09,278 --> 00:17:11,070 Apart from the Punic Wars, 91 00:17:11,196 --> 00:17:14,866 I've been blamed for everything that's happened in ltaIy. 92 00:17:14,992 --> 00:17:18,786 They've honored me with several nicknames: 93 00:17:18,912 --> 00:17:21,664 The Divine Julius, The First Letter of the Alphabet, 94 00:17:21,790 --> 00:17:24,500 The Hunchback, The Fox, Moloch, 95 00:17:24,626 --> 00:17:27,795 The Salamander, The Black Pope, Eternity, 96 00:17:27,921 --> 00:17:30,840 Man of Darkness, Beelzebub. 97 00:17:30,966 --> 00:17:33,217 But I've never pressed charges 98 00:17:33,343 --> 00:17:38,222 for a simple reason: I have a sense of humor. 99 00:17:38,348 --> 00:17:40,224 I have something else, too: 100 00:17:40,350 --> 00:17:44,312 a vast archive in place of an imagination. 101 00:17:44,438 --> 00:17:46,773 Every time I mention it, 102 00:17:46,899 --> 00:17:50,985 those who should shut up do so, as if by magic. 103 00:18:11,715 --> 00:18:14,801 - You may go in, ma'am. - Wait! 104 00:18:14,927 --> 00:18:16,844 What's wrong? 105 00:18:16,970 --> 00:18:19,806 Everyone says he's a dangerous man. 106 00:18:21,767 --> 00:18:24,185 Andreotti isn't dangerous. 107 00:18:24,311 --> 00:18:27,897 He's daring. That's quite a different thing. 108 00:18:30,192 --> 00:18:33,861 Is there anything I should know about him? 109 00:18:33,987 --> 00:18:38,157 Yes, his hands. Watch them closely. 110 00:18:38,283 --> 00:18:43,454 If he twiddIes his thumbs, he thinks you're intelligent. 111 00:18:43,580 --> 00:18:44,914 If he plays with his ring, 112 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,501 it means he disagrees with what you're saying. 113 00:18:48,627 --> 00:18:52,713 If he rhythmically taps his fingertips together, 114 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:58,094 it means you'll be dismissed within the next five minutes. 115 00:18:58,220 --> 00:19:02,431 What about when his eyes suddenIy diIate? 116 00:19:02,558 --> 00:19:07,436 I don't know, no one does. Good luck. 117 00:19:07,563 --> 00:19:09,814 Thank you. 118 00:20:18,425 --> 00:20:21,260 Giulio, it's midnight, we have to go. 119 00:20:21,386 --> 00:20:23,554 Don't forget you're leaving tomorrow. 120 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,890 Yes, Livia. 121 00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:43,824 - Thank you for coming, Andreotti. - Goodbye, Paolo. 122 00:21:13,897 --> 00:21:16,315 MOSCOW. THE KREMLIN 123 00:21:18,986 --> 00:21:21,279 Hello, I'm the Premier. 124 00:21:21,405 --> 00:21:24,073 I'm more important, I'm his wife. 125 00:21:24,199 --> 00:21:26,867 - Did you go play cards? - Yes. 126 00:21:26,994 --> 00:21:30,121 l wore the coat that Saddam Hussein gave you. 127 00:21:30,247 --> 00:21:34,125 Marisa Ioved it and asked where I bought it. 128 00:21:34,251 --> 00:21:39,505 I was a bit hesitant to say, because it seemed like I was boasting. 129 00:21:39,631 --> 00:21:41,966 - How's Gorbachev? - State Secret. 130 00:21:42,092 --> 00:21:45,386 Is that birthmark on his head unsightly? 131 00:21:45,512 --> 00:21:47,263 I don't mind it. 132 00:21:47,389 --> 00:21:48,556 Are you going to bed now? 133 00:21:48,682 --> 00:21:52,935 First I have to do some Cossack dancing. 134 00:21:53,061 --> 00:21:56,856 - Say "trimarri." - "Tvimavvi." 135 00:21:56,982 --> 00:22:01,360 - Say "vrigliari." - "Vigliavi." That's enough. 136 00:22:01,486 --> 00:22:03,321 Goodnight, Giulio. 137 00:22:39,358 --> 00:22:43,402 What will they remember about you, HonorabIe Mr. Andreotti? 138 00:22:43,528 --> 00:22:47,198 I don't intend to rake up your duII career, 139 00:22:47,324 --> 00:22:50,034 that's not a crime. 140 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,245 What will they remember about you? 141 00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:59,001 A cold organizer: inscrutable, incapable of doubts or thrills. 142 00:22:59,127 --> 00:23:03,005 Incapable of pity. 143 00:23:05,467 --> 00:23:09,053 What will they remember about you? 144 00:23:12,557 --> 00:23:16,018 Postscript: 145 00:23:16,144 --> 00:23:19,605 the Pope did ever so little, 146 00:23:19,731 --> 00:23:23,359 perhaps he'll feel guilty. 147 00:23:26,863 --> 00:23:31,575 Your government's immobility damages your race for the presidency. 148 00:23:31,701 --> 00:23:35,037 The government's about to faII, but it shouldn't happen like this. 149 00:23:35,163 --> 00:23:38,124 Better to bluff it than snuff it. 150 00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:41,377 Politically, you're naive. 151 00:23:41,503 --> 00:23:44,046 Naivety and intelligence aIways go together. 152 00:23:44,172 --> 00:23:47,299 - Are you calling me a bastard? - Of course not. 153 00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:51,720 You're angry because I didn't defend you from Cossiga's accusations. 154 00:23:51,847 --> 00:23:53,139 That's water under the bridge. 155 00:23:53,265 --> 00:23:57,351 I couldn't oppose Cossiga, we've been arguing for months. 156 00:23:57,477 --> 00:24:01,063 I'm just trying to see things from a political viewpoint. 157 00:24:01,189 --> 00:24:04,108 You always want to talk poIiticaI strategies. 158 00:24:04,234 --> 00:24:06,944 I, on the other hand, have a dreadful migraine today. 159 00:24:07,070 --> 00:24:10,281 Yes, but you always have a migraine. 160 00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:18,164 Remind Fiorenzo about Tedax. 161 00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:22,626 Let's make sure it stays in the pharmaceutical codex. 162 00:24:23,879 --> 00:24:25,880 Amintore... 163 00:24:39,352 --> 00:24:40,769 Good morning, ma'am. 164 00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:45,191 I'm weII, thank you. How about you? Go ahead. 165 00:24:46,234 --> 00:24:48,235 Actually, it's not true. 166 00:24:48,361 --> 00:24:51,697 I'm not very good at making recommendations. 167 00:24:52,991 --> 00:24:56,744 I hate lies, and I don't tell them. 168 00:24:56,870 --> 00:25:00,706 I've never believed one can divide humanity 169 00:25:00,832 --> 00:25:02,958 into two groups: angels and demons. 170 00:25:03,084 --> 00:25:06,253 We're all average sinners. 171 00:25:06,379 --> 00:25:10,841 If one wants to keep a secret, one mustn't even confide in oneself. 172 00:25:10,967 --> 00:25:13,469 One must never leave a trace. 173 00:25:31,029 --> 00:25:33,239 Good evening. 174 00:25:36,576 --> 00:25:39,453 Come in. 175 00:25:39,579 --> 00:25:41,705 Take a seat, please, ma'am. 176 00:25:48,588 --> 00:25:52,424 I used to come to this apartment before you were here. 177 00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:55,970 - It was a furrier's. - I know. 178 00:25:56,096 --> 00:25:57,346 Craxi used to say: 179 00:25:57,472 --> 00:26:01,767 "Andreotti is an old fox. He'll end up in a furrier's one day." 180 00:26:01,893 --> 00:26:04,603 He was right, I really have. 181 00:26:04,729 --> 00:26:06,522 But alive. 182 00:26:12,779 --> 00:26:15,656 Does my company bore you that much? 183 00:26:15,782 --> 00:26:17,408 - Not at all. - ReaIIy? 184 00:26:17,534 --> 00:26:19,952 Really. 185 00:26:20,078 --> 00:26:26,250 You aren't at all curious about me. It's very unusual. 186 00:26:26,376 --> 00:26:31,005 I'm only curious about myself. 187 00:26:31,131 --> 00:26:34,383 My job is to inquire into myself. 188 00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:40,598 Does this noble work pay well? 189 00:26:42,142 --> 00:26:48,063 Yes, my husband pays for this noble work very generously. 190 00:26:52,944 --> 00:26:55,738 What do you expect from me, ma'am? 191 00:27:01,161 --> 00:27:05,372 Sorry, I wanted to thank you. 192 00:27:05,498 --> 00:27:08,709 It's a very difficult time for me. 193 00:27:08,835 --> 00:27:11,295 I'm so vulnerable. 194 00:27:11,421 --> 00:27:13,213 You mustn't be. 195 00:27:13,340 --> 00:27:17,801 Vulnerability always commands exorbitant prices. 196 00:27:17,927 --> 00:27:21,096 So, what must I do? 197 00:27:21,222 --> 00:27:25,976 Your young lover is transient, because youth is transient. 198 00:27:26,102 --> 00:27:28,020 But your husband isn't. 199 00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:31,231 He's a cure for your loneliness 200 00:27:31,358 --> 00:27:34,693 and for your vulnerability. 201 00:27:34,819 --> 00:27:38,906 BeIieve me, I'm famiIiar with loneliness, and it's not very nice. 202 00:27:39,032 --> 00:27:46,664 In my position, I must have met about 300,000 people. 203 00:27:46,790 --> 00:27:51,502 Do you think this oceanic crowd has made me feel any less lonely? 204 00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:56,382 Thank you. 205 00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:20,716 Go! 206 00:30:00,590 --> 00:30:05,761 Giulio, the Mafia murdered SaIvo Lima. 207 00:30:11,476 --> 00:30:14,812 VINCENZO SCOTTI INTERIOR MINISTER alias "TARZAN" 208 00:30:14,938 --> 00:30:17,356 Teresa, how are you? 209 00:30:18,775 --> 00:30:22,444 That's good news. 210 00:30:22,570 --> 00:30:24,947 Yes, Teresa. 211 00:30:25,073 --> 00:30:29,243 Livia and I will visit you on Sunday. 212 00:30:29,369 --> 00:30:33,789 All right. Goodbye. 213 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,169 Teresa is my cousin. 214 00:30:39,295 --> 00:30:43,549 She's the same age as me, and she's always sick, in the hospital. 215 00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:47,761 Once she was home for three months: a remarkabIe event. 216 00:30:47,887 --> 00:30:52,599 To teII you the truth, as much as I've tried, 217 00:30:52,725 --> 00:30:57,521 and I've tried a lot over the years of miIitancy, friendship... 218 00:30:57,647 --> 00:31:03,360 I must say that I'll never understand you. 219 00:31:03,486 --> 00:31:05,988 I don't know you. 220 00:31:06,114 --> 00:31:10,450 When they abducted Moro, I had spasms of vomiting. 221 00:31:10,577 --> 00:31:14,204 An uncontrollable reaction. 222 00:31:14,330 --> 00:31:18,125 Uncontrollable reactions embarrass us. 223 00:31:18,251 --> 00:31:22,212 But deep down they reassure us, 224 00:31:22,338 --> 00:31:26,842 because they tell us that we're alive and human. 225 00:31:26,968 --> 00:31:30,554 We have to go to Palermo for the funeral. 226 00:31:32,974 --> 00:31:35,934 If they killed Lima to strike at me, 227 00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:40,105 a candidate in pectore for the presidency of the Republic, 228 00:31:40,231 --> 00:31:43,483 it means there's another candidate using these methods. 229 00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:47,237 I speak to the State, I speak to the investigators, 230 00:31:47,363 --> 00:31:52,576 and I call on you to identify and exemplarily punish 231 00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:55,621 the killers and the mandators alike, 232 00:31:55,747 --> 00:32:01,084 so that this time they cannot be shielded by a disheartening vagueness, 233 00:32:01,210 --> 00:32:04,671 especially the mandators. 234 00:32:04,797 --> 00:32:09,760 Public opinion calls for justice to prevail. 235 00:32:09,886 --> 00:32:12,846 There should be absolutely no doubt 236 00:32:12,972 --> 00:32:17,267 about the willingness to investigate 237 00:32:17,393 --> 00:32:21,355 and expose the true facts. 238 00:32:34,869 --> 00:32:38,246 Lord, keep a close watch on me, 239 00:32:38,373 --> 00:32:43,418 because I am becoming despicabIe in the eyes of those who contemplate me. 240 00:32:44,545 --> 00:32:47,714 Lord, keep a close watch on me, 241 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:54,054 because I am becoming despicabIe in the eyes of those who contemplate me. 242 00:33:27,463 --> 00:33:32,342 Lima was suspected of Mafia involvement for years. 243 00:33:32,468 --> 00:33:34,094 He generated too much gossip. 244 00:33:34,220 --> 00:33:39,141 So do many other members of your faction. It's not a good sign. 245 00:33:39,267 --> 00:33:42,394 - I generate gossip, too. - But you're Andreotti, they aren't. 246 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,063 That, at least, is not my fault. 247 00:33:45,189 --> 00:33:47,315 Why do you surround yourself with such people? 248 00:33:47,442 --> 00:33:50,110 Wars are fought with the troops available. 249 00:33:50,236 --> 00:33:52,404 The best people can choose the best troops. 250 00:33:52,530 --> 00:33:55,949 Trees need manure in order to grow. 251 00:33:56,075 --> 00:33:58,368 Your irony is atrocious. 252 00:33:58,494 --> 00:34:01,121 Irony is the best cure against death. 253 00:34:01,247 --> 00:34:04,041 Cures against death are always atrocious. 254 00:34:05,918 --> 00:34:09,713 You're suffering for Lima? 255 00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:12,549 I'm suffering for Moro. 256 00:34:12,675 --> 00:34:16,428 Everything always washed over me without leaving a trace, 257 00:34:16,554 --> 00:34:19,222 but not Moro. 258 00:34:19,348 --> 00:34:22,559 I just can't get him off my mind. 259 00:34:22,685 --> 00:34:26,313 It's like a second migraine, but even more agonizing. 260 00:34:26,439 --> 00:34:31,276 Why didn't they take me? I'm strong. 261 00:34:31,402 --> 00:34:33,111 Moro was a weak man. 262 00:34:33,237 --> 00:34:35,697 Don't say that. It's just pointless remorse. 263 00:34:35,823 --> 00:34:38,992 If the Red Brigades had wanted secrets, 264 00:34:39,118 --> 00:34:42,120 they could have talked to me for a year. 265 00:34:42,246 --> 00:34:48,126 Moro had no idea that certain things even existed. 266 00:34:48,252 --> 00:34:53,423 You know, Mario, once they called me at home. 267 00:34:53,549 --> 00:34:56,218 No one has my private number. 268 00:34:56,344 --> 00:34:59,304 They said they'd kill me on December 26th. 269 00:34:59,430 --> 00:35:03,975 I replied, "Thanks, now I'll spend HoIy Christmas in peace." 270 00:35:06,270 --> 00:35:10,857 I'm stiII here. They were put off by a witty remark. 271 00:35:10,983 --> 00:35:14,194 The Red Brigades... far too serious. 272 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,197 Andreotti's 7th government shouldn't have ended this way. 273 00:35:17,323 --> 00:35:22,744 It doesn't matter. Next time, God willing, I'll get a little higher. 274 00:35:22,870 --> 00:35:26,414 The Quirinal. 275 00:35:26,541 --> 00:35:31,753 The presidency of the RepubIic would be your crowning achievement. 276 00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:35,215 How will you spend Sunday? 277 00:35:35,341 --> 00:35:39,803 The same way I spend all the others, with my oId constituents. 278 00:36:08,708 --> 00:36:14,087 - Thank you, Premier. - You're welcome, ma'am. 279 00:36:21,721 --> 00:36:24,514 Do they grow that big in Ferentino? 280 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,727 In Sora? Thank you, Vittorio, put them down there. 281 00:36:31,147 --> 00:36:33,940 This is for you. 282 00:36:37,862 --> 00:36:43,158 Here's a nice saiIboat and a lovely toy kitchen. 283 00:36:49,498 --> 00:36:53,418 - This is for you. - Many thanks, Premier. 284 00:36:54,670 --> 00:36:58,465 - Premier, I'd... - What's this? 285 00:36:58,591 --> 00:37:01,426 Household expenses... 286 00:37:01,552 --> 00:37:03,887 Goodness... 287 00:37:04,847 --> 00:37:09,601 - Any news on that job, Premier? - You'll have to be patient. 288 00:37:09,727 --> 00:37:12,354 WeII, chaps, we need to face up to the situation. 289 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,357 Now that Cossiga had nominated The Lad as Iife senator, 290 00:37:15,483 --> 00:37:17,817 what will happen to his 330,000 votes? 291 00:37:17,944 --> 00:37:21,071 Bravo, that's exactly why 292 00:37:21,197 --> 00:37:25,951 I think I should be appointed faction coordinator. 293 00:37:26,077 --> 00:37:27,744 Behave yourselves. 294 00:37:27,870 --> 00:37:31,581 I don't get it, what the hell do you want to coordinate? 295 00:37:31,707 --> 00:37:35,919 Each one of us always took care of our own regions. 296 00:37:36,045 --> 00:37:38,463 Behave yourselves! 297 00:37:38,589 --> 00:37:40,507 What do you want? 298 00:37:40,633 --> 00:37:45,637 Join in this political debate but don't just say, "Behave yourselves." 299 00:37:45,763 --> 00:37:47,681 We need a concept. 300 00:37:47,807 --> 00:37:48,974 Where are you going? 301 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:51,685 To the other Christian Democrat faction, they're nicer. 302 00:37:51,811 --> 00:37:53,603 Niceness is detrimental in politics. 303 00:37:53,729 --> 00:37:56,773 That's why I'm going, because I'm not nice at all. 304 00:37:56,899 --> 00:37:58,733 Wait a moment. 305 00:37:58,859 --> 00:38:03,029 Pomicino, The Shark's leaving. 306 00:38:03,155 --> 00:38:07,284 And he's taking all those 330,000 votes with him. 307 00:38:10,871 --> 00:38:14,374 The Shark?! The little fish... who'll drown. 308 00:38:33,269 --> 00:38:35,312 Hi. 309 00:38:48,993 --> 00:38:51,286 How are you, my dearest Ambassador? 310 00:38:51,412 --> 00:38:54,205 My dear lady! I haven't slept a wink 311 00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:56,875 since I missed your last art exhibition. 312 00:38:57,001 --> 00:39:00,045 You didn't miss a thing, I'm just a dabbler. 313 00:39:00,171 --> 00:39:01,546 Hooray for dabbling! 314 00:39:01,672 --> 00:39:03,965 I'm a surgeon and Chancellor of the Exchequer... 315 00:39:04,091 --> 00:39:08,136 Professionalism is killing us. 316 00:39:08,262 --> 00:39:10,638 I beg you, please dance. 317 00:39:28,949 --> 00:39:31,826 WouId you Iike a "Transgression," ma'am? 318 00:39:31,952 --> 00:39:35,372 - What do you mean? - It's a cocktail, ma'am. 319 00:39:35,498 --> 00:39:37,999 No, thank you. 320 00:40:09,824 --> 00:40:12,450 Premier, would you care for a Cuban? 321 00:40:12,576 --> 00:40:15,787 Thank you, but I don't succumb to Iesser vices. 322 00:40:15,913 --> 00:40:18,915 Have you ever danced, Premier? 323 00:40:19,041 --> 00:40:21,251 My whole life, ma'am. 324 00:40:32,555 --> 00:40:36,224 Here's the "fat girl" I promised you. 325 00:40:36,350 --> 00:40:38,935 You can't imagine what this mozzarella's like. 326 00:40:39,061 --> 00:40:43,106 - It reminds me of SbardeIIa. - Reminds you? It is Sbardella. 327 00:40:43,232 --> 00:40:47,944 That traitor! How far will he get without Andreotti? 328 00:40:48,070 --> 00:40:51,781 He won't get anywhere without Andreotti. 329 00:40:51,907 --> 00:40:55,994 We're not members of a faction, 330 00:40:56,120 --> 00:41:01,291 we're in a theocratic empire where one person rules: Andreotti. 331 00:41:01,417 --> 00:41:05,003 Eat Sbardella, Franco. It'll calm you down. 332 00:41:05,129 --> 00:41:08,548 Listen, Andreotti, the aim of this dinner is obvious. 333 00:41:08,674 --> 00:41:13,136 We think you should be elected President of the RepubIic. 334 00:41:13,262 --> 00:41:16,806 And we want to do everything possible to make that happen. 335 00:41:16,932 --> 00:41:18,933 What do you think? 336 00:41:22,229 --> 00:41:26,065 I know I'm of average height, but... 337 00:41:26,192 --> 00:41:29,110 I don't see any giants around. 338 00:41:32,948 --> 00:41:35,992 I know my Giulio too well. 339 00:41:36,118 --> 00:41:38,244 He just said yes. 340 00:42:01,852 --> 00:42:03,811 Thank you. 341 00:42:03,938 --> 00:42:05,522 This watch 342 00:42:05,648 --> 00:42:10,109 isn't to commemorate the moment, it's for the future. 343 00:42:10,236 --> 00:42:13,112 Its hands always point to the future. 344 00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:17,659 And you are the future. I got it from Haussmann's. 345 00:42:17,785 --> 00:42:21,079 It's the brand that counts, not the store. 346 00:42:21,205 --> 00:42:23,331 You make it tough to care about you. 347 00:42:23,457 --> 00:42:25,458 I never asked you to care about me. 348 00:42:25,584 --> 00:42:28,878 I know, but I care about you aII the same. 349 00:42:29,004 --> 00:42:32,090 And in all these years, you've never shown me any affection. Never. 350 00:42:32,216 --> 00:42:34,300 I always defended you politically. 351 00:42:34,426 --> 00:42:36,844 Even when you made incongruous remarks. 352 00:42:36,971 --> 00:42:40,181 Yes, but life isn't only politics. 353 00:42:40,307 --> 00:42:44,394 I'm not intelligent like you... I did some "incongruous" things, 354 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:51,025 but I always covered the body part directly below the coccyx for you. 355 00:42:51,151 --> 00:42:53,194 Always. 356 00:42:58,158 --> 00:43:02,579 Always. Don't forget that. 357 00:43:02,705 --> 00:43:07,750 You just made another incongruous remark. 358 00:43:07,876 --> 00:43:10,295 There's nothing else but politics. 359 00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:12,255 Talk to Fiorenzo. 360 00:43:12,381 --> 00:43:17,594 I'll be unhappy if Tedax is taken off the pharmaceuticaI codex. 361 00:43:21,849 --> 00:43:24,309 What is it? 362 00:43:30,399 --> 00:43:33,067 Why did you get up? 363 00:43:36,947 --> 00:43:39,949 I wanted to wish you luck. 364 00:43:41,785 --> 00:43:43,578 Yes. 365 00:43:47,082 --> 00:43:53,838 If you get elected, will we live in the QuirinaI or here? 366 00:43:53,964 --> 00:43:57,467 Here. The Quirinal would drive you mad. 367 00:43:57,593 --> 00:43:58,843 It's like being a prisoner 368 00:43:58,969 --> 00:44:02,180 with aII those cuirassiers, speakers and pastry-bearers. 369 00:44:04,183 --> 00:44:09,646 Yes, Enea, five o'clock wiII be fine. Thanks. 370 00:45:36,275 --> 00:45:38,526 Bastard. 371 00:45:51,165 --> 00:45:53,416 The order of business is: 372 00:45:53,542 --> 00:45:56,210 election of the President of the Republic. 373 00:45:56,336 --> 00:45:58,838 Thieves! 374 00:45:58,964 --> 00:46:02,925 Honorable members! 375 00:46:10,142 --> 00:46:12,769 Honorable Parisi! 376 00:46:12,895 --> 00:46:16,314 You're an old parliamentarian, show some respect. 377 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,692 - I'll press charges! - Shame on you! 378 00:46:25,657 --> 00:46:27,575 Show some decency! 379 00:46:34,750 --> 00:46:39,253 Buffoons! Buffoons! 380 00:46:41,089 --> 00:46:44,342 We have to nominate the President of the Republic, 381 00:46:44,468 --> 00:46:46,469 we must remain united so one of our men wins. 382 00:46:46,595 --> 00:46:51,933 My dear chaps, come to an agreement. Talk frankly. 383 00:46:52,059 --> 00:46:55,978 If dear Arnaldo is a candidate, I'm out of the race. 384 00:46:56,104 --> 00:46:59,774 If dear Giulio is a candidate, I'm out of the race. 385 00:46:59,900 --> 00:47:02,276 I see. 386 00:47:08,033 --> 00:47:11,285 - How did it go? - They both want to run. 387 00:47:11,411 --> 00:47:13,746 I'd like to finish speaking, Mr. President. 388 00:47:13,872 --> 00:47:17,375 You've already had two applauses, let someone else talk. 389 00:47:17,501 --> 00:47:19,710 I just want to finish a line of reasoning. 390 00:47:19,837 --> 00:47:23,047 That's enough reasoning, let's vote. 391 00:47:23,173 --> 00:47:26,676 Honorable member, reasoning is optional for you. 392 00:47:40,899 --> 00:47:45,403 Four ballots and we still don't have a real candidate. 393 00:47:45,529 --> 00:47:49,323 AgneIIi asked me if this would go on all week. 394 00:47:49,449 --> 00:47:51,492 Is he worried about the weekend? 395 00:47:51,618 --> 00:47:55,788 Franco, I don't discuss politics with you, just sports. 396 00:47:55,914 --> 00:47:59,458 I discuss politics with Giulio. 397 00:47:59,585 --> 00:48:06,424 The immobiIity of Andreotti's government has multiplied its enemies. 398 00:48:06,550 --> 00:48:08,009 If we vote for him, they'll assault us. 399 00:48:08,135 --> 00:48:09,510 You haven't understood a thing. 400 00:48:09,636 --> 00:48:12,054 You hammer us for a year 401 00:48:12,180 --> 00:48:16,309 and then ask us to vote the big boss into the Quirinal. 402 00:48:16,435 --> 00:48:20,229 Andreotti in the QuirinaI and Forlani as head of the D.C. party. 403 00:48:20,355 --> 00:48:23,524 If you want Forlani in the Quirinal, don't compIain afterwards. 404 00:48:23,650 --> 00:48:27,028 If ForIani gets the presidency, De Mita becomes party leader. 405 00:48:27,154 --> 00:48:29,697 And De Mita will hinder Craxi from becoming premier. 406 00:48:29,823 --> 00:48:31,908 That's why we have to get Andreotti into the Quirinal, 407 00:48:32,034 --> 00:48:35,786 and leave Forlani as party leader and MartinazzoIi as vice premier. 408 00:48:35,913 --> 00:48:39,916 See how simple, clear and scientific it is? 409 00:48:43,378 --> 00:48:46,422 See all these people? See the opposition? 410 00:48:46,548 --> 00:48:50,092 Andreotti supporters are everywhere, above suspicion. 411 00:48:50,218 --> 00:48:54,096 Not only in the Christian Democrats: I'm cross-party. 412 00:48:57,309 --> 00:49:01,270 The killer was about to be revealed. I never want to know. 413 00:49:22,209 --> 00:49:26,712 The candidates will fall, one by one. 414 00:49:26,838 --> 00:49:32,301 Then we'II move in, rested and redemptive. 415 00:49:32,427 --> 00:49:35,888 What do the illegal bookmakers say? 416 00:49:36,014 --> 00:49:40,351 Spadolini is at one and a half, Andreotti four, Craxi eight, 417 00:49:40,477 --> 00:49:43,187 Iotti ten, Forlani twelve, 418 00:49:43,313 --> 00:49:46,023 De Mita fifteen and Scalfaro twenty. 419 00:49:47,734 --> 00:49:50,736 - Cossiga? - Cossiga's not on the list. 420 00:49:50,862 --> 00:49:53,906 Did they forget him? 421 00:49:54,032 --> 00:49:55,199 Will you vote for him? 422 00:49:55,325 --> 00:49:57,535 No, I can't stand him. 423 00:49:57,661 --> 00:49:59,829 - What does that mean? - I could never stand him. 424 00:49:59,955 --> 00:50:04,875 Not voting for him is dangerous, for you and us, too. 425 00:50:06,044 --> 00:50:09,338 I'm asking you as a favor, do it for me. Just this once. 426 00:50:09,464 --> 00:50:13,968 - All right. - Dry your hands, hurry. 427 00:51:11,651 --> 00:51:14,528 Let us observe a one-minute silence 428 00:51:14,654 --> 00:51:19,075 in memory of Giovanni Falcone, magistrate. 429 00:51:35,550 --> 00:51:39,261 Here are the ballot results: 430 00:51:39,387 --> 00:51:45,059 present voters 1002, no abstentions. 431 00:51:45,185 --> 00:51:50,314 Absolute majority of the assembly: 508. 432 00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:51,732 Voting went as follows... 433 00:51:51,858 --> 00:51:54,068 - Watch Andreotti closely. - ScaIfaro 672 votes... 434 00:51:54,194 --> 00:52:00,157 - He's waited for this all his life. - Miglio 75, Cossiga 63... 435 00:52:00,283 --> 00:52:06,831 VoIponi 50, VaIiani 36, Forlani and Spadolini 7, 436 00:52:06,957 --> 00:52:09,416 Andreotti and Vassalli 6, 437 00:52:09,543 --> 00:52:11,836 Conso and Iotti 4, 438 00:52:11,962 --> 00:52:16,382 Bossi and Scalfari 3, Guido Quaranta 2. 439 00:52:16,508 --> 00:52:22,555 Invalid ballots: 15, blank ballots: 38, void ballots: 1 1. 440 00:52:22,681 --> 00:52:25,683 I declare the elected President of the Republic to be 441 00:52:25,809 --> 00:52:30,312 the Honorable Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. 442 00:52:36,361 --> 00:52:38,404 Keep watching him. 443 00:52:38,530 --> 00:52:42,867 Watch and learn how to behave. 444 00:52:50,125 --> 00:52:53,460 I never kissed my mother. Never ! 445 00:52:53,587 --> 00:52:58,883 Then again, Judas kissed a lot, and he wasn't sentimentaI. 446 00:52:59,009 --> 00:53:03,512 She wasn't at aII impressed that I was an MP or minister. 447 00:53:03,638 --> 00:53:05,681 I cried when she died. 448 00:53:05,807 --> 00:53:08,434 During my life, I cried twice more: 449 00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:13,230 when De Gasperi died and the first time I was nominated vice-minister. 450 00:53:13,356 --> 00:53:17,151 Once, l made a vow, 451 00:53:17,277 --> 00:53:20,821 it was when the Red Brigades kidnapped AIdo Moro. 452 00:53:20,947 --> 00:53:25,534 I vowed to give up ice cream if he was reIeased. 453 00:53:27,245 --> 00:53:30,956 I have a weakness for ice cream. 454 00:53:35,754 --> 00:53:40,549 If there were direct elections in Italy for President of the Republic, 455 00:53:40,675 --> 00:53:44,220 I would've won. 456 00:53:44,346 --> 00:53:48,015 I forgive you, but you've got to get down on your knees. 457 00:53:48,141 --> 00:53:53,437 If you have the courage to change... but they won't change. 458 00:53:55,065 --> 00:54:00,569 To change, change... 459 00:54:00,695 --> 00:54:06,617 They don't want to change, they won't change... 460 00:54:09,537 --> 00:54:14,792 Change and stop causing death and destruction. 461 00:54:14,918 --> 00:54:17,378 Go back to being Christians. 462 00:54:17,504 --> 00:54:21,632 We pray for this in the name of Jesus who said it on the cross: 463 00:54:21,758 --> 00:54:27,930 Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. 464 00:55:16,229 --> 00:55:21,984 Politicians, businessmen: I'm worried about this recent wave of suicides. 465 00:55:22,110 --> 00:55:23,944 Some can't stand imprisonment, 466 00:55:24,070 --> 00:55:28,449 others the accusations of corruption or bribery... 467 00:55:28,575 --> 00:55:33,704 and they kiII themseIves... but are they suicides, Premier? 468 00:55:33,830 --> 00:55:35,664 By the way, 469 00:55:35,790 --> 00:55:39,251 Craxi says you're the puppeteer behind BribesviIIe. 470 00:55:39,377 --> 00:55:41,086 What nonsense! 471 00:55:41,212 --> 00:55:46,675 Your colleagues are falling prey to corruption and extortion. 472 00:55:46,801 --> 00:55:50,888 Craxi, Forlani, De Mita, Martelli, La Malfa. 473 00:55:51,014 --> 00:55:52,514 But not you. 474 00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:56,852 This appallingly big scandal hasn't touched you. 475 00:55:56,978 --> 00:56:01,398 I feeI compassion and a sense of sadness for them. 476 00:56:01,524 --> 00:56:04,777 But I don't think they're finished. 477 00:56:04,903 --> 00:56:08,989 I don't beIieve they're personally responsible 478 00:56:09,115 --> 00:56:13,202 or that they should disappear from the poIiticaI scene. 479 00:56:13,328 --> 00:56:15,829 I don't want to talk about Bribesville, 480 00:56:15,955 --> 00:56:21,710 but about a piece I'd like to write on an almost philosophical theme. 481 00:56:21,836 --> 00:56:24,421 The theme is chance. 482 00:56:24,547 --> 00:56:29,510 I don't beIieve in chance, I believe in the will of God. 483 00:56:29,636 --> 00:56:35,599 But you should believe in chance! 484 00:56:35,725 --> 00:56:37,518 Well, Premier, 485 00:56:37,644 --> 00:56:41,271 is it by chance that the families of assassination victims hate you? 486 00:56:41,398 --> 00:56:43,732 Dalla Chiesa's son hates you. 487 00:56:43,858 --> 00:56:47,861 He says that you instigated his father's murder. 488 00:56:47,987 --> 00:56:50,030 Aldo Moro's wife hates you 489 00:56:50,156 --> 00:56:54,076 and holds you responsible for her husband's death. 490 00:56:54,202 --> 00:56:59,456 Does banker Roberto Calvi's wife hate you by chance? 491 00:56:59,582 --> 00:57:04,795 She said you threatened then ordered Calvi's murder. 492 00:57:04,921 --> 00:57:08,882 She says the Vatican Bank didn't kill him, but two people: 493 00:57:09,008 --> 00:57:13,887 Andreotti and Cosentino, who's also dead now. 494 00:57:14,013 --> 00:57:18,600 And I wonder, is it by chance that you were Interior Minister 495 00:57:18,726 --> 00:57:22,062 when the bandit Pisciotta was killed by poisoned coffee? 496 00:57:22,188 --> 00:57:28,026 Maybe Pisciotta could have revealed the instigators of Giuliano's murder. 497 00:57:28,153 --> 00:57:33,365 Was banker Michele Sindona killed in the same way by chance? 498 00:57:33,491 --> 00:57:39,037 He too could have made some uncomfortable disclosures in prison. 499 00:57:39,164 --> 00:57:44,585 Is it by chance that everyone says you repeatedly protected Sindona? 500 00:57:44,711 --> 00:57:48,046 Is it by chance that Evangelisti, your deputy, 501 00:57:48,173 --> 00:57:53,594 met Sindona when he was on the run, at a toy shop in New York? 502 00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,139 Is it by chance that the Magistrate Viola says 503 00:57:57,265 --> 00:57:59,766 if you hadn't protected Sindona, 504 00:57:59,893 --> 00:58:03,145 the Ambrosoli crime wouldn't have happened? 505 00:58:03,271 --> 00:58:05,481 Furthermore, 506 00:58:05,607 --> 00:58:10,194 you jot down everything scrupulously in your diary, so is it by chance 507 00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:14,615 that you forgot to write about the Ambrosoli crime? 508 00:58:14,741 --> 00:58:21,830 Is it by chance that from '76-'79, when you were Premier, 509 00:58:21,956 --> 00:58:26,585 aII the secret service chiefs were members of the P2 Masonic lodge? 510 00:58:26,711 --> 00:58:32,299 Is it by chance that in your frequent meetings with P2 head, Licio Gelli, 511 00:58:32,425 --> 00:58:37,262 you talked exclusively about South American desaparecidos? 512 00:58:37,388 --> 00:58:41,642 That's what you said: "just friendIy chit-chat." 513 00:58:41,768 --> 00:58:45,771 Finally, is it by chance that you've been dragged into 514 00:58:45,897 --> 00:58:48,982 nearly every scandal that's afflicted this country? 515 00:58:49,108 --> 00:58:57,574 And that's without mentioning aII the suspects that allege your Mafia links. 516 00:58:57,700 --> 00:59:01,411 Basically, as Montanelli said, "It's one or the other. 517 00:59:01,538 --> 00:59:04,498 "You're either the most cunning criminal in the country 518 00:59:04,624 --> 00:59:07,501 "because you never got caught 519 00:59:07,627 --> 00:59:15,467 or you're the most persecuted man in the history of Italy." 520 00:59:15,593 --> 00:59:18,762 So I'm asking: 521 00:59:18,888 --> 00:59:23,600 are all these coincidences the fruit of chance 522 00:59:23,726 --> 00:59:26,186 or the will of God? 523 00:59:38,157 --> 00:59:42,578 Is it by chance that the influential newspaper you founded 524 00:59:42,704 --> 00:59:45,080 was once saved by the Premier? 525 00:59:45,206 --> 00:59:48,000 That Premier was me. 526 00:59:48,126 --> 00:59:51,086 Your newspaper aImost feII into the hands of Silvio Berlusconi, 527 00:59:51,212 --> 00:59:53,589 an employer you wouldn't have liked. 528 00:59:53,715 --> 00:59:55,132 I stopped it from happening. 529 00:59:55,258 --> 00:59:59,595 Also thanks to the mediation of the much-reviled Ciarrapico. 530 00:59:59,721 --> 01:00:03,432 I aIIowed you to regain your independence and freedom. 531 01:00:03,558 --> 01:00:06,143 Independence and freedom which allows you 532 01:00:06,269 --> 01:00:09,146 to ask me impudent, specious questions. 533 01:00:09,272 --> 01:00:12,774 It's thanks to me that you can be so arrogant, 534 01:00:12,900 --> 01:00:16,111 presumptuous and distrustful towards me. 535 01:00:16,237 --> 01:00:18,947 That's not the case... 536 01:00:19,073 --> 01:00:23,118 The situation was a bit more complicated. 537 01:00:23,244 --> 01:00:28,790 See? You're quite perspicacious, you've worked it out for yourself. 538 01:00:28,916 --> 01:00:31,835 The situation was a bit more complicated. 539 01:00:31,961 --> 01:00:37,549 But that doesn't just apply to your story, it appIies to mine, too. 540 01:00:49,103 --> 01:00:57,986 TOTO' RIINA. MAFIA BOSS OF BOSSES alias "THE BEAST" 541 01:02:12,186 --> 01:02:15,981 Now I'll tell you everything, but hold on to your seats, 542 01:02:16,107 --> 01:02:21,862 because it's all linked, everything is connected. 543 01:02:21,988 --> 01:02:26,241 I repeat: hold on to your seats. 544 01:02:42,049 --> 01:02:47,763 GIANCARLO CASELLI ATTORNEY GENERAL OF PALERMO 545 01:02:49,599 --> 01:02:54,186 Pippo CaIo, Toto Riina and Francesco Madonia 546 01:02:54,312 --> 01:02:57,606 made use of Licio Gelli for their investments. 547 01:02:57,732 --> 01:03:01,651 Some of this money was invested in the Vatican Bank 548 01:03:01,778 --> 01:03:06,281 where Gelli acted as banker for the group. 549 01:03:06,407 --> 01:03:10,327 Sindona was banker for the previous Mafia bosses: 550 01:03:10,453 --> 01:03:13,789 Stefano Bontate and Salvatore Inzerillo... 551 01:03:13,915 --> 01:03:17,375 Yes, I met Licio Gelli and Michele Sindona. 552 01:03:17,502 --> 01:03:20,045 Well-mannered, respectful people. 553 01:03:20,171 --> 01:03:24,716 Licio GeIIi had a mattress shop near the Christian Democrat headquarters. 554 01:03:24,842 --> 01:03:28,178 Pippo CaIo kiIIed several relatives of mine, 555 01:03:28,304 --> 01:03:30,847 but at one time we were great friends. 556 01:03:30,973 --> 01:03:36,436 Roberto Calvi appropriated a substantiaI sum 557 01:03:36,562 --> 01:03:39,773 belonging to Gelli and Calo. 558 01:03:39,899 --> 01:03:44,736 Calvi's suicide was staged. 559 01:03:44,862 --> 01:03:48,114 Calvi was strangled by Francesco Di Carlo, 560 01:03:48,241 --> 01:03:50,283 on Pippo Calo's orders. 561 01:03:50,409 --> 01:03:53,537 Pippo Calo was a very important man in Cosa Nostra. 562 01:03:53,663 --> 01:03:56,623 He's capable of using his brain. He was Cosa Nostra's man in Rome. 563 01:03:56,749 --> 01:04:00,168 He had Iinks with Bontate, then with Riina, 564 01:04:00,294 --> 01:04:03,630 with the Camorra, with the Vatican, with the Secret Services, 565 01:04:03,756 --> 01:04:06,049 with the P2 and the Magliana Gang. 566 01:04:06,175 --> 01:04:08,260 - If Calo talked... - If Calo talked... 567 01:04:08,386 --> 01:04:11,638 he'd die after saying, "Good morning." 568 01:04:13,015 --> 01:04:18,061 On the subject of Moro, Pippo Calo told Bontate: 569 01:04:18,187 --> 01:04:24,651 "Don't you get it? His fellow party members don't want him freed." 570 01:04:24,777 --> 01:04:30,907 In 1983, Badalamenti told me there were secrets about Moro's kidnapping. 571 01:04:31,033 --> 01:04:34,119 Secrets that troubled the Honorable Mr. Andreotti. 572 01:04:34,245 --> 01:04:38,123 Andreotti was worried they couId Ieak out. 573 01:04:38,249 --> 01:04:41,209 Only two people knew about these secrets: 574 01:04:41,335 --> 01:04:45,463 General Dalla Chiesa and Mino Pecorelli, the journalist. 575 01:04:51,804 --> 01:04:56,224 BadaIamenti toId me that although we'd killed Pecorelli, 576 01:04:56,350 --> 01:04:58,310 it was a political killing 577 01:04:58,436 --> 01:05:03,607 commissioned by the Salvo cousins as a favor to Andreotti. 578 01:05:03,733 --> 01:05:07,944 When Dalla Chiesa was murdered, Badalamenti said: 579 01:05:08,070 --> 01:05:11,448 "They sent him to Palermo to get rid of him. 580 01:05:11,574 --> 01:05:14,242 He hadn't done anything in Sicily 581 01:05:14,368 --> 01:05:17,913 to justify all that hate towards him." 582 01:05:18,039 --> 01:05:23,251 The Pecorelli and Dalla Chiesa cases are linked, gentlemen. 583 01:05:23,377 --> 01:05:29,174 The government wouIdn't give Dalla Chiesa special anti-Mafia powers. 584 01:05:29,300 --> 01:05:32,427 When Dalla Chiesa was killed, they blamed the Mafia. 585 01:05:32,553 --> 01:05:37,641 Some time after, I had a meeting with Lima and Nino SaIvo. 586 01:05:37,767 --> 01:05:40,602 If Dalla Chiesa was already powerless on aII IeveIs, why kiII him? 587 01:05:40,728 --> 01:05:45,231 For some politicians, he'd have been more dangerous in retirement. 588 01:05:45,358 --> 01:05:48,693 We're the ones who'll be fucked for a Iong time to come. 589 01:05:50,279 --> 01:05:55,825 Badalamenti told me he'd met up with Andreotti in Rome, 590 01:05:55,952 --> 01:05:58,995 to thank him for his concern 591 01:05:59,121 --> 01:06:04,668 over a trial regarding Filippo Rimi, Badalamenti's brother-in-law. 592 01:06:04,794 --> 01:06:09,547 Badalamenti told me that Andreotti congratulated him, saying: 593 01:06:09,674 --> 01:06:10,840 "Men like you..." 594 01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:16,471 Men like you... are needed on every street in Italy. 595 01:06:19,976 --> 01:06:22,519 LARRY SCHOENBACH BADALAMENTI'S ATTORNEY 596 01:06:31,153 --> 01:06:33,488 It was said by Ciro Varga of the Vallelunga family, 597 01:06:33,614 --> 01:06:35,740 CataIdo Terminio of the San Cataldo family, 598 01:06:35,866 --> 01:06:39,244 and SaIvatore Ferrero of the Caltanisetta family that... 599 01:06:40,830 --> 01:06:43,415 Giulio, I need to talk to you in private. 600 01:06:43,541 --> 01:06:46,251 The Honorable Mr. Lima was Andreotti's contact 601 01:06:46,377 --> 01:06:48,837 for everything that concerned Cosa Nostra, 602 01:06:48,963 --> 01:06:52,007 especially the trials. 603 01:06:52,133 --> 01:06:57,554 Sebastiano Nardo toId me that Andreotti was "pricked," 604 01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:00,056 he was initiated, a "man of honor." 605 01:07:07,690 --> 01:07:12,986 Bontate told me that Andreotti went to PaIermo to meet him, 606 01:07:13,112 --> 01:07:15,780 Lima, the Salvo cousins and the Honorable Mr. Nicoletti. 607 01:07:15,906 --> 01:07:19,576 It was between spring and summer of '79. 608 01:07:19,702 --> 01:07:22,829 The meeting took place on a hunting reserve 609 01:07:22,955 --> 01:07:26,291 and Bontate complained to Andreotti 610 01:07:26,417 --> 01:07:30,045 about the Honorable Mr. Mattarella's behavior, 611 01:07:30,171 --> 01:07:34,049 who wasn't lending a helping hand to the Mafia anymore. 612 01:07:41,682 --> 01:07:46,561 There was a second meeting some months after Mattarella's death. 613 01:07:46,687 --> 01:07:49,397 We're in charge of Sicily 614 01:07:49,523 --> 01:07:54,110 and if you don't want the D.C. wiped out, you'd better do as we say. 615 01:07:54,236 --> 01:07:57,322 Otherwise we won't just take away the Sicilian votes, 616 01:07:57,448 --> 01:08:01,201 but those from Reggio Calabria and all Southern Italy, too. 617 01:08:01,327 --> 01:08:05,997 You'll only have the North, where they all vote Communist. 618 01:08:06,123 --> 01:08:07,540 Take our votes. 619 01:08:07,666 --> 01:08:11,252 And don't get any ideas about special measures or laws, 620 01:08:11,378 --> 01:08:14,380 or there'll be other serious incidents. 621 01:08:15,341 --> 01:08:20,678 But I'd point out that after '87, Andreotti stopped favoring anyone. 622 01:08:20,805 --> 01:08:24,390 In fact, he started fighting the Mafia. 623 01:08:26,435 --> 01:08:29,187 Lima died because he represented that political faction 624 01:08:29,313 --> 01:08:31,606 which had made use of Cosa Nostra's votes 625 01:08:31,732 --> 01:08:36,277 then reneged on its commitments during the Big Mafia TriaI. 626 01:08:38,989 --> 01:08:43,993 I can't be more precise about when the meeting took place, 627 01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:48,623 because it's hard to put a date on my memories. 628 01:08:48,749 --> 01:08:52,585 You know that what you're telling us is aImost unbeIievabIe? 629 01:08:52,711 --> 01:08:53,878 Yes. 630 01:08:54,004 --> 01:08:57,799 But it was also unbelievable that Riina was captured 631 01:08:57,925 --> 01:09:01,803 after years on the run, but it happened. Thanks to me. 632 01:09:29,999 --> 01:09:32,750 Come with me. 633 01:11:58,105 --> 01:12:02,900 The Palermo Judges sent notification 634 01:12:03,027 --> 01:12:05,903 that I'm under investigation for Mafia connections. 635 01:12:06,030 --> 01:12:09,741 They'll ask for authorization to proceed against me. 636 01:12:11,201 --> 01:12:13,995 And this time they'll get it. 637 01:12:18,083 --> 01:12:21,252 I know who you are. 638 01:12:21,378 --> 01:12:26,007 You can't spend your life with a man and not know who he is. 639 01:12:26,133 --> 01:12:30,887 I know who you are. And we'll defend ourselves. 640 01:12:37,811 --> 01:12:41,189 l don't know if Riina and Andreotti met or not. 641 01:12:41,315 --> 01:12:44,734 But if they did, I'm sure they kissed. 642 01:12:44,860 --> 01:12:50,531 Andreotti spoke about the Mafia. Well, he spoke about himself... 643 01:12:50,657 --> 01:12:54,118 Why must the good ones always die, like the mafioso Liggio? 644 01:12:54,244 --> 01:12:58,247 When Andreotti dies, they'll take the bIack box out of his hump 645 01:12:58,374 --> 01:13:01,751 and we'll finally know... 646 01:13:01,877 --> 01:13:04,128 ...like a miraculous lucky dip 647 01:13:04,254 --> 01:13:07,632 It's wonderful to dip in whiIe suspended 648 01:13:07,758 --> 01:13:11,969 From a soft, pink cloud 649 01:13:12,096 --> 01:13:15,181 Me, like a gentleman 650 01:13:15,307 --> 01:13:20,770 And you, like 651 01:13:20,896 --> 01:13:25,441 A bride 652 01:13:26,485 --> 01:13:29,904 While outside the window 653 01:13:30,030 --> 01:13:34,117 Only the dust blows 654 01:13:34,243 --> 01:13:39,288 A storm's brewing 655 01:13:41,792 --> 01:13:49,215 We two are from a distant planet 656 01:13:49,341 --> 01:13:57,098 But from here, the world seems Iike a secret trap door 657 01:13:57,224 --> 01:14:00,351 Everyone wants everything 658 01:14:00,477 --> 01:14:06,315 Only to realize 659 01:14:06,442 --> 01:14:10,862 That it's all nothing 660 01:14:11,947 --> 01:14:15,658 We won't be like other people 661 01:14:15,784 --> 01:14:20,288 These will always be 662 01:14:27,963 --> 01:14:37,680 The best years of our lives 663 01:14:37,806 --> 01:14:44,187 HoId me tight, no night lasts forever... 664 01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:11,130 Livia, your lively eyes dazzled me one afternoon in the Verano cemetery. 665 01:15:11,256 --> 01:15:14,300 I chose that odd pIace to ask you to marry me. 666 01:15:14,426 --> 01:15:16,469 Remember? Yes, I know, you remember. 667 01:15:16,595 --> 01:15:19,931 Your lively, innocent, enchanted eyes didn't know, 668 01:15:20,057 --> 01:15:22,725 don't know and will never know. 669 01:15:22,851 --> 01:15:25,436 They have no idea of the deeds that power must commit 670 01:15:25,562 --> 01:15:28,689 to ensure the weII-being and development of the country. 671 01:15:28,815 --> 01:15:30,691 For too long, that power was me. 672 01:15:30,817 --> 01:15:33,861 The monstrous, unavowable contradiction: 673 01:15:33,987 --> 01:15:36,239 perpetrating evil to guarantee good. 674 01:15:36,365 --> 01:15:38,199 The monstrous contradiction that made me 675 01:15:38,325 --> 01:15:40,243 a cynical man that even you couldn't decipher. 676 01:15:40,369 --> 01:15:44,747 Your lively, innocent eyes don't know the responsibility. 677 01:15:44,873 --> 01:15:46,707 The direct and indirect responsibility 678 01:15:46,833 --> 01:15:51,712 for all the carnage in Italy from 1969 to 1984 679 01:15:51,838 --> 01:15:56,133 that left precisely 236 dead and 817 injured. 680 01:15:56,260 --> 01:15:59,637 To all the families of the victims, I say that I confess. 681 01:15:59,763 --> 01:16:04,267 I confess that it was my fault, my most grievous fauIt. 682 01:16:04,393 --> 01:16:06,644 I'll say it, even if it's pointless. 683 01:16:06,770 --> 01:16:09,605 Havoc used to destabilize the country, 684 01:16:09,731 --> 01:16:12,900 to provoke terror to isolate the extremist parties 685 01:16:13,026 --> 01:16:16,404 and strengthen the center ones Iike the Christian Democrats... 686 01:16:16,530 --> 01:16:19,198 has been described as "tension strategy." 687 01:16:19,324 --> 01:16:22,952 It would be more correct to say "survivaI strategy." 688 01:16:23,078 --> 01:16:26,038 Roberto, Michele, Giorgio, Carlo Alberto, 689 01:16:26,164 --> 01:16:27,540 Giovanni, Mino, dear Aldo, 690 01:16:27,666 --> 01:16:32,420 by vocation or necessity, all confirmed lovers of the truth. 691 01:16:32,546 --> 01:16:37,383 All bombs ready to explode that were defused into silence. 692 01:16:37,509 --> 01:16:40,636 All of them thinking truth is the right thing, 693 01:16:40,762 --> 01:16:42,555 but, actually, it's the end of the world. 694 01:16:42,681 --> 01:16:46,809 We can't allow the end of the world in the name of what's right. 695 01:16:46,935 --> 01:16:49,729 We have a task, a divine task. 696 01:16:49,855 --> 01:16:51,939 We must love God greatly 697 01:16:52,065 --> 01:16:54,984 to understand how necessary eviI is for good. 698 01:16:55,110 --> 01:17:00,948 God knows it, I know it, too. 699 01:17:45,118 --> 01:17:48,204 One can be dull but honest, dull but good, 700 01:17:48,330 --> 01:17:50,456 dull but full of fervor. 701 01:17:50,582 --> 01:17:54,168 Well, Honorable Mr. Andreotti, that is just what you lack. 702 01:17:54,294 --> 01:17:56,712 You lack human fervor. 703 01:17:56,838 --> 01:18:00,841 Along with the goodness, wisdom, fIexibiIity, transparency 704 01:18:00,967 --> 01:18:02,677 that undeniably make up 705 01:18:02,803 --> 01:18:06,222 the few real Christian Democrats that exist in the world. 706 01:18:06,348 --> 01:18:08,641 You'll last a little longer, or a little less, 707 01:18:08,767 --> 01:18:11,686 but you'll vanish without a trace. 708 01:18:11,812 --> 01:18:16,732 You'll be a mere news item, especially now that it suits you. 709 01:18:40,757 --> 01:18:43,217 - How long did you walk? - AII night. 710 01:18:43,343 --> 01:18:48,597 - My Iegs are reaIIy hurting. - Take more care. Stress, your age... 711 01:18:48,724 --> 01:18:53,436 - Tedax would make me happy. - It was taken off the codex. 712 01:18:53,562 --> 01:18:58,482 Stop the nervous walking, try doing some sports. 713 01:18:58,608 --> 01:19:02,194 All my athletic friends are dead. 714 01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:04,071 Chance. 715 01:19:04,197 --> 01:19:09,577 I don't beIieve in chance. I believe in the will of God. 716 01:19:19,963 --> 01:19:23,466 - I'm sorry. - No, don't say anything. 717 01:19:23,592 --> 01:19:28,179 It's for the best. I'II retire to the country and pick chicory. 718 01:19:28,305 --> 01:19:32,391 - Chicory's good. - Yes, it's politics that's bad. 719 01:19:32,517 --> 01:19:35,352 And to tell the truth, I'm tired of it. 720 01:19:36,605 --> 01:19:37,813 It's for the best. 721 01:19:37,939 --> 01:19:43,778 Andreotti says he has too many legal expenses 722 01:19:43,904 --> 01:19:46,322 and now that he's not in the government... 723 01:19:46,448 --> 01:19:51,577 Poor Andreotti, he was always on his own. 724 01:19:51,703 --> 01:19:53,913 Now even more so. 725 01:20:00,295 --> 01:20:04,131 - What's in there? - Love letters. 726 01:20:04,257 --> 01:20:08,969 You wouldn't think it, but women liked Andreotti. 727 01:20:09,095 --> 01:20:12,348 They wrote him lots of letters. 728 01:20:12,474 --> 01:20:15,100 But I never let him see them. 729 01:20:16,061 --> 01:20:18,145 I don't want trouble. 730 01:20:19,189 --> 01:20:22,566 Have you read them, Miss Enea? 731 01:20:23,902 --> 01:20:26,862 I know full well, Senator, 732 01:20:26,988 --> 01:20:31,242 that there are certain things in Iife one mustn't see. 733 01:21:36,057 --> 01:21:40,477 PRIVATE ARCHIVES OF GIULIO ANDREOTTI 734 01:22:21,811 --> 01:22:26,732 I can say with a sense of responsibility that I'd prefer 735 01:22:26,858 --> 01:22:31,612 the Mafia to have eIiminated me in the same way they did Dalla Chiesa 736 01:22:31,738 --> 01:22:35,866 than to end up here, not knowing how to defend myself against lies. 737 01:22:35,992 --> 01:22:39,912 I never met the Salvo cousins in my life. 738 01:22:40,038 --> 01:22:42,164 I never associated with them, 739 01:22:42,290 --> 01:22:45,417 and Lima never hinted at matters pertaining to the Mafia. 740 01:22:45,543 --> 01:22:47,544 I do not know Bontate, I do not know Badalamenti. 741 01:22:47,671 --> 01:22:50,547 I have never had secret meetings with them. 742 01:22:50,674 --> 01:22:54,551 My movements are constantly controlled by the police. 743 01:22:54,678 --> 01:22:59,098 I am under special surveillance, I want there to be no doubt. 744 01:22:59,224 --> 01:23:02,768 As for the authorization to proceed, I'm in your hands. 745 01:23:02,894 --> 01:23:04,895 Senator, if we use our vote 746 01:23:05,021 --> 01:23:07,773 to block further investigations by the judiciary, 747 01:23:07,899 --> 01:23:11,068 what wiII be Ieft of this country's institutions? 748 01:23:11,194 --> 01:23:15,864 I understand the risk, but... 749 01:23:15,991 --> 01:23:19,702 we cannot allow the judiciary to govern. 750 01:23:19,828 --> 01:23:21,203 That's all for now. 751 01:23:21,329 --> 01:23:24,248 Would you like to add anything else, Senator Andreotti? 752 01:23:24,374 --> 01:23:25,666 Go ahead. 753 01:23:25,792 --> 01:23:30,170 For many years, I have been Italy's international representative. 754 01:23:30,296 --> 01:23:33,132 A country led by someone who reports to the Mafia 755 01:23:33,258 --> 01:23:37,386 does not have much credibility in the worId arena. 756 01:23:37,512 --> 01:23:43,142 I'm not the only one who'll be discredited by this. 757 01:23:58,408 --> 01:24:00,451 You've lost more weight. 758 01:24:00,577 --> 01:24:03,620 And my hand shakes when I write. 759 01:24:03,747 --> 01:24:05,372 Because you don't sleep anymore. 760 01:24:05,498 --> 01:24:09,209 Yes, I don't sleep anymore. 761 01:24:09,335 --> 01:24:13,630 Your friends from the faction don't caII anymore. 762 01:24:13,757 --> 01:24:19,678 Pray for them, Livia. They were destroyed, too. 763 01:24:19,804 --> 01:24:21,722 By whom? 764 01:24:23,933 --> 01:24:27,561 By life 765 01:24:27,687 --> 01:24:29,480 and by accusations of bribery. 766 01:24:42,577 --> 01:24:45,245 Is it far? 767 01:25:23,535 --> 01:25:27,621 26 times for 26 different accusations, 768 01:25:27,747 --> 01:25:31,500 I was brought before the investigating committee. 769 01:25:31,626 --> 01:25:33,585 They made me talk for days on end. 770 01:25:33,711 --> 01:25:35,963 But each time, the case was dismissed. 771 01:25:36,089 --> 01:25:41,677 Dismissed, dismissed, dismissed... 772 01:25:51,312 --> 01:25:56,525 We're here to taIk about presumed governmental responsibility 773 01:25:56,651 --> 01:25:58,986 in the Piazza Fontana massacre. 774 01:25:59,112 --> 01:26:01,697 I don't remember... 775 01:26:01,823 --> 01:26:05,701 I was only informed of the facts. I couIdn't know about that. 776 01:26:05,827 --> 01:26:07,619 You remember meeting Gelli? 777 01:26:07,745 --> 01:26:10,164 I don't remember, I don't remember, I don't remember. 778 01:26:10,290 --> 01:26:15,002 De Gasperi said of you: "He's so capable at everything, 779 01:26:15,128 --> 01:26:18,088 he could become capable of anything." 780 01:26:18,214 --> 01:26:21,508 Leave De Gasperi out of this. 781 01:26:21,634 --> 01:26:24,136 I met Gelli briefly in Frosinone. 782 01:26:24,262 --> 01:26:26,346 He was a manager of the Permaflex mattress company. 783 01:26:26,472 --> 01:26:30,392 Years Iater, I saw him in Argentina and thought, 784 01:26:30,518 --> 01:26:34,605 "He looks like the manager of Permaflex." 785 01:26:34,731 --> 01:26:40,944 Carlo Bordoni, Sindona's son-in-law, and Mrs. Calvi accuse you 786 01:26:41,070 --> 01:26:45,282 of being the master of the P2 lodge, not Gelli. 787 01:26:45,408 --> 01:26:50,579 I'd never have settIed for being master ofjust one lodge. 788 01:26:50,705 --> 01:26:56,043 Mrs. Calvi made that accusation years ago. 789 01:26:56,169 --> 01:27:00,714 I wrote to her expressing my sympathy for her grief 790 01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:05,010 and imploring her not to foster such scandals. 791 01:27:05,136 --> 01:27:08,555 The Christian Democrats did all they could to save Moro. 792 01:27:08,681 --> 01:27:11,892 It was one of the most agonizing things I've ever experienced. 793 01:27:12,018 --> 01:27:14,353 It's one thing to fight political battles, 794 01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:19,691 but to say that we didn't do everything possible to save Moro... 795 01:27:19,817 --> 01:27:23,237 That is truly... 796 01:27:24,030 --> 01:27:28,116 I've made many mistakes in my life, but I never had Mafia ties. 797 01:27:28,243 --> 01:27:30,577 Never! Ever! 798 01:27:30,703 --> 01:27:33,247 A man is here today 799 01:27:33,373 --> 01:27:39,586 who once had the courage to say to Pope John XXIII, 800 01:27:39,712 --> 01:27:45,509 "Excuse me, Your Holiness, but you don't know the Vatican." 801 01:27:46,261 --> 01:27:47,886 He was right. 802 01:27:48,012 --> 01:27:53,058 Giulio Andreotti is here with us today. 803 01:28:22,380 --> 01:28:24,923 The committee has given the go-ahead. 804 01:28:25,049 --> 01:28:27,759 There will be a trial. 805 01:28:33,016 --> 01:28:36,435 REBIBBIA PRISON MAXIMUM SECURITY COURTROOM 806 01:29:04,922 --> 01:29:06,089 Here he is! 807 01:29:06,215 --> 01:29:09,343 He's coming. 808 01:29:11,387 --> 01:29:15,432 Mr. Riina, have you ever met Giulio Andreotti? 809 01:29:15,558 --> 01:29:18,435 Have you ever kissed him? 810 01:29:18,561 --> 01:29:21,146 Have you ever met Senator Andreotti? 811 01:29:21,272 --> 01:29:24,483 Today's a beautiful day. 812 01:29:25,777 --> 01:29:29,488 - Do you feel safe in prison? - We're safe anywhere. 813 01:29:29,614 --> 01:29:32,366 - We who? - What do you expect from the court? 814 01:29:32,492 --> 01:29:34,326 Only good things. 815 01:29:34,452 --> 01:29:36,995 - Do you know the turncoat Mutolo? - No. 816 01:29:37,121 --> 01:29:42,292 - And Senator Andreotti? - That's enough, back off. 817 01:29:52,428 --> 01:29:57,391 May I have some sparkling water, please? 818 01:30:04,107 --> 01:30:09,528 Pecorelli said he had Moro's complete memoirs 819 01:30:09,654 --> 01:30:14,741 and that they contained revelations about Andreotti. 820 01:30:14,867 --> 01:30:20,747 Once, around two in the morning, 821 01:30:20,873 --> 01:30:25,085 General Dalla Chiesa came to see me 822 01:30:25,211 --> 01:30:31,341 with a manuscript of about 50 pages that Moro had written. 823 01:30:31,467 --> 01:30:37,431 He said he was going to give it to Andreotti the next day. 824 01:30:39,725 --> 01:30:43,895 Yes, that's what he said. 825 01:31:00,872 --> 01:31:03,457 The news is false and slanderous. 826 01:31:03,583 --> 01:31:06,793 I never met Ignazio Salvo or Riina. 827 01:31:06,919 --> 01:31:10,630 If Di Maggio recognizes Salvo's house, it's his business. 828 01:31:10,756 --> 01:31:12,674 Come on, Senator, tell the truth. 829 01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:15,927 Who induced you to accuse me? We've never met. 830 01:31:16,053 --> 01:31:19,514 Sure we have. I'm talking about stuff that I saw myseIf. 831 01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:21,475 They got Riina because of this. 832 01:31:21,601 --> 01:31:25,228 My conscience is at peace. Do the same for yours. 833 01:31:25,354 --> 01:31:30,400 My client will not be subjected to such tones. 834 01:31:30,526 --> 01:31:33,236 That will be all, Di Maggio. 835 01:31:37,074 --> 01:31:39,367 - Let's continue. - No. 836 01:31:39,494 --> 01:31:43,830 First I'd like my statement to be minuted. 837 01:31:43,956 --> 01:31:46,291 Because even though I recognize that aII men are equaI, 838 01:31:46,417 --> 01:31:48,752 I feel deeply humiliated 839 01:31:48,878 --> 01:31:52,172 by a confrontation with a Mafioso, even if he's a turncoat. 840 01:32:01,474 --> 01:32:04,476 How are you, Premier? 841 01:32:04,602 --> 01:32:08,855 So-so... And you? 842 01:32:08,981 --> 01:32:13,026 Basically, I'm bored. 843 01:32:14,695 --> 01:32:17,447 Basically, 844 01:32:17,573 --> 01:32:19,908 so am I. 845 01:32:21,077 --> 01:32:23,912 Goodbye, Premier. 846 01:32:24,038 --> 01:32:27,165 Goodbye. 847 01:32:27,291 --> 01:32:30,168 Premier... 848 01:32:30,294 --> 01:32:32,879 Don't slouch. 849 01:33:02,577 --> 01:33:05,954 Italian cuisine is delicious, especially the Roman dishes. 850 01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:10,208 - Know how this sauce got its name? - Yes, I know. 851 01:33:11,252 --> 01:33:17,841 Giulio, you're good at listening, making wisecracks; 852 01:33:17,967 --> 01:33:24,514 you have perseverance, the ability to concentrate and to hoId out. 853 01:33:24,640 --> 01:33:28,059 But that's it. 854 01:33:28,185 --> 01:33:34,274 They depict you as cunning, cuItured, very inteIIigent. 855 01:33:34,400 --> 01:33:35,984 I say that's not the case. 856 01:33:36,110 --> 01:33:39,738 What's made you so critical suddenly? 857 01:33:39,864 --> 01:33:46,995 Nothing, just the need to establish the truth occasionally. 858 01:33:47,121 --> 01:33:48,997 A need you've never had. 859 01:33:49,123 --> 01:33:53,293 You live longer without needs. 860 01:33:53,419 --> 01:33:55,879 Another wisecrack. 861 01:34:15,232 --> 01:34:19,653 My blood will spill upon you. 862 01:34:28,371 --> 01:34:32,540 People know you, and I didn't get rich from politics, 863 01:34:32,667 --> 01:34:36,544 but they think that power is what interested us for 40 years. 864 01:34:36,671 --> 01:34:41,508 They think it makes us happy, maintaining our positions. 865 01:34:41,634 --> 01:34:48,056 They forget, or pretend to forget, that we actually saved their lives. 866 01:34:48,182 --> 01:34:52,852 They forget the Soviet threat was real and close by. 867 01:34:54,939 --> 01:34:58,108 We let Aldo Moro die. 868 01:34:59,694 --> 01:35:02,028 And if I have grey hair and liver spots on my skin, 869 01:35:02,154 --> 01:35:06,032 it's because while we let Moro die, 870 01:35:06,158 --> 01:35:09,160 I was aware of it. 871 01:35:11,163 --> 01:35:14,916 What about you, Giulio? 872 01:35:17,920 --> 01:35:20,672 Do you remember that socialist, Nenni? 873 01:35:20,798 --> 01:35:24,175 Enthusiastic, passionate. 874 01:35:24,301 --> 01:35:30,390 He said, "I'm going to put the national railway back on track." 875 01:35:30,516 --> 01:35:34,769 I said, "In the madhouse, those who don't claim to be Napoleon, 876 01:35:34,895 --> 01:35:40,483 cIaim they'II put the national railway back on track." 877 01:35:40,609 --> 01:35:43,862 Nenni and I hated each other. 878 01:35:43,988 --> 01:35:48,199 But we esteemed and respected each other, 879 01:35:48,325 --> 01:35:51,536 both of us. 880 01:35:51,662 --> 01:35:52,996 It's not like that today. 881 01:35:53,122 --> 01:35:57,625 Don't be disheartened by the inquiry into Pecorelli's death. 882 01:35:57,752 --> 01:36:00,086 It's funny. 883 01:36:00,212 --> 01:36:04,340 I'm disheartened by little things, not serious accusations. 884 01:36:05,593 --> 01:36:08,470 You know what discourages me? 885 01:36:08,596 --> 01:36:13,266 The news that I've been removed as president of The Music Society. 886 01:36:15,060 --> 01:36:18,980 I'II Iose my Iectureship at the Institute of Ciceronian Studies 887 01:36:19,106 --> 01:36:22,108 and perhaps even the honorary degrees. 888 01:36:22,234 --> 01:36:24,694 I always thought my vanity was a great defect. 889 01:36:24,820 --> 01:36:29,324 - But I'm comforted by talking to you. - It's nothing to do with vanity. 890 01:36:29,450 --> 01:36:32,327 I'm from the provinces, from a humble background. 891 01:36:32,453 --> 01:36:37,457 Cultural rather than political legitimization was more important. 892 01:36:37,583 --> 01:36:40,543 I always preferred to be seen as a cuItured man 893 01:36:40,669 --> 01:36:43,880 rather than a great statesman. 894 01:36:48,385 --> 01:36:53,348 Francesco, I must confess something I've never dared admit to anyone. 895 01:36:53,474 --> 01:36:56,601 Not even to myself. 896 01:36:56,727 --> 01:37:00,522 - Tell me, Giulio. - But it must remain between us. 897 01:37:00,648 --> 01:37:04,567 It wouldn't be the first time. 898 01:37:04,693 --> 01:37:08,822 I've always had a secret. 899 01:37:15,704 --> 01:37:18,873 A passion. 900 01:37:20,042 --> 01:37:25,880 A passion for Mary Gassman, the famous actor's sister. 901 01:37:26,006 --> 01:37:28,049 She never knew, and she never reciprocated. 902 01:37:28,175 --> 01:37:32,720 I'm sure she wouldn't have, even if she'd known. 903 01:37:32,847 --> 01:37:37,642 She was marvelous, Mary Gassman. 904 01:37:37,768 --> 01:37:42,313 She took my sleep away, she took my breath away. 905 01:37:42,439 --> 01:37:46,776 All I did at school was think about her. 906 01:37:46,902 --> 01:37:49,904 Then I got married... 907 01:37:50,030 --> 01:37:53,032 and I forgot her. 908 01:38:06,380 --> 01:38:08,840 I must talk to you. 909 01:38:08,966 --> 01:38:12,093 Starting today, we will apply the philosophy of St. Bernard: 910 01:38:12,219 --> 01:38:17,265 See everything, tolerate a lot, correct one thing at a time. 911 01:38:17,391 --> 01:38:21,352 Because if it's true that Christians must turn the other cheek, 912 01:38:21,478 --> 01:38:25,189 it's also true that Jesus Christ, very intelligently, 913 01:38:25,316 --> 01:38:28,443 only gave us two. 914 01:38:28,569 --> 01:38:31,279 The Big Mafia Trial is about to begin. 915 01:38:31,405 --> 01:38:34,490 I will defend myself with all my might. 916 01:38:35,784 --> 01:38:37,744 And I have plenty of it. 917 01:38:41,040 --> 01:38:44,375 To the activism of the Palermo public prosecutor's office, 918 01:38:44,501 --> 01:38:46,920 we can add that of the Perugia public prosecutor's office. 919 01:38:47,046 --> 01:38:49,339 Whilst gathering statements from Buscetta 920 01:38:49,465 --> 01:38:53,927 about the existence of compromising writings by Moro 921 01:38:54,053 --> 01:38:56,804 that GeneraI DaIIa Chiesa was supposed to have hidden 922 01:38:56,931 --> 01:39:00,934 and that the murdered journaIist, Mino Pecorelli, was about to publish, 923 01:39:01,060 --> 01:39:04,228 another request has been made for my committal to trial. 924 01:39:04,355 --> 01:39:06,022 This new accusation claims 925 01:39:06,148 --> 01:39:10,276 that I was the mandator in Mino Pecorelli's killing. 926 01:39:10,402 --> 01:39:15,281 What can I say that my Iife has not already made clear? 927 01:39:15,407 --> 01:39:16,908 Their theory worries me. 928 01:39:17,034 --> 01:39:19,619 The prosecutors assert that a Mafioso cannot lie. 929 01:39:19,745 --> 01:39:22,622 So this brotherhood's members are marked by the fact 930 01:39:22,748 --> 01:39:26,918 that they can kill up to 20 people in Mannoia's case, 931 01:39:27,044 --> 01:39:30,296 or, if they show restraint, 10 people in Di Maggio's case. 932 01:39:30,422 --> 01:39:34,092 However, they can never be suspected of Iying. 933 01:39:34,218 --> 01:39:37,095 The fact that I took a very hard line of action with the Mafia 934 01:39:37,221 --> 01:39:39,931 in regard to government legislation, counts for nothing. 935 01:39:40,057 --> 01:39:43,267 They said I pretended to be tough on the Mafia. 936 01:39:43,394 --> 01:39:47,438 At this point, I'm starting to think they're in league. 937 01:39:47,564 --> 01:39:51,234 What's your reaction to Evangelisti's statement? 938 01:39:51,360 --> 01:39:55,279 I never had a secret meeting with DaIIa Chiesa. 939 01:39:55,406 --> 01:39:58,616 If Franco claimed that, he must have dreamed it. 940 01:39:58,742 --> 01:40:01,953 Is there a conspiracy against you? 941 01:40:02,079 --> 01:40:05,540 Look, since all the turncoats are making false statements, 942 01:40:05,666 --> 01:40:08,793 I must assume that they have an unknown prompter, 943 01:40:08,919 --> 01:40:12,505 since a concurrence of this type wouId be most difficuIt. 944 01:40:12,631 --> 01:40:16,217 Yes, because their statements all concur, 945 01:40:16,343 --> 01:40:19,595 yet we know there's been no contact between them. 946 01:40:19,722 --> 01:40:22,098 They're held by different bodies. 947 01:40:22,224 --> 01:40:26,477 Doesn't the theory of a plot against you seem implausible? 948 01:40:26,603 --> 01:40:27,895 Not at all. 949 01:40:30,190 --> 01:40:33,026 Thank you, everyone. 950 01:41:04,224 --> 01:41:06,601 Of course... 951 01:41:08,729 --> 01:41:10,897 All right. 952 01:41:13,484 --> 01:41:15,693 We can go. 953 01:41:16,695 --> 01:41:18,654 Andreotti's trial begins. 954 01:41:18,781 --> 01:41:22,450 The first hearing, in what has been called the "trial of the century," 955 01:41:22,576 --> 01:41:25,203 will start at 10am tomorrow. 956 01:41:26,163 --> 01:41:30,374 As time goes by, I'm more convinced Andreotti is an extraterrestriaI. 957 01:41:30,501 --> 01:41:33,753 We haven't understood that he belongs to a tradition 958 01:41:33,879 --> 01:41:35,838 that has made the history of the Church immortal. 959 01:41:35,964 --> 01:41:38,591 He carries 2,000 years of history inside him. 960 01:41:38,717 --> 01:41:41,969 There's Christ's sacrifice, Pope Joan, 961 01:41:42,096 --> 01:41:45,473 the lnquisition, the Borgias and diplomacy. 962 01:41:49,436 --> 01:41:52,396 I'm not surprised that Andreotti 963 01:41:52,523 --> 01:41:56,776 has been marked as mandator in the PecoreIIi murder. 964 01:41:56,902 --> 01:42:02,240 ProbabIy, the issue of his magazine with the Senator's photo on the cover 965 01:42:02,366 --> 01:42:04,867 is at the root of his death. 966 01:42:04,993 --> 01:42:09,163 If Andreotti had wanted to kill everyone he found troublesome, 967 01:42:09,289 --> 01:42:12,792 he'd have had to take on enemies much greater than PecoreIIi. 968 01:42:12,918 --> 01:42:16,129 Maybe a whole cemetery wouldn't have been big enough. 969 01:42:39,653 --> 01:42:42,280 Talleyrand comes to mind when you think of Andreotti. 970 01:42:42,406 --> 01:42:44,699 T-A-L-L- 971 01:42:44,825 --> 01:42:48,077 E-Y-R-A-N-D- full stop. 972 01:42:48,203 --> 01:42:52,915 They both had the same objective, coIon, power, fuII stop. 973 01:42:53,041 --> 01:42:56,294 But the complexity of Andreotti's character, comma... 974 01:42:56,420 --> 01:43:01,174 makes up part, comma, if one can say, comma, of his greatness, fuII stop. 975 01:43:03,677 --> 01:43:06,304 The greatness of the enigma, full stop. 976 01:43:58,148 --> 01:44:00,441 Hello, Livia... 977 01:44:00,567 --> 01:44:03,778 Yes, I got some sleep. 978 01:44:03,904 --> 01:44:06,239 I love you, too. 979 01:45:25,819 --> 01:45:28,821 Court is in session. 980 01:45:35,120 --> 01:45:40,750 Be seated. We'll begin with the representatives. 981 01:45:43,337 --> 01:45:46,922 Is the defendant Giulio Andreotti present? 982 01:45:47,049 --> 01:45:50,384 Please sit down. 983 01:45:54,723 --> 01:45:58,517 Defense attorneys Odoardo Ascari and Franco Coppi, 984 01:45:58,643 --> 01:46:02,104 have substitutes been designated? 985 01:46:19,456 --> 01:46:23,334 Andreotti remained indifferent, leaden, distant, 986 01:46:23,460 --> 01:46:26,629 cocooned in his dark dream of glory. 987 01:46:26,755 --> 01:46:29,673 He'd had to further his reactionary plan, 988 01:46:29,800 --> 01:46:32,885 not disappoint the Communists, the Germans 989 01:46:33,011 --> 01:46:35,888 and who knows who else. 990 01:46:36,014 --> 01:46:39,141 What was the meaning, in the face of all this, 991 01:46:39,267 --> 01:46:42,186 of the inconsolable grief of an old spouse, 992 01:46:42,312 --> 01:46:45,022 the destruction of a family? 993 01:46:45,148 --> 01:46:48,359 What did all this mean for Andreotti, 994 01:46:48,485 --> 01:46:52,321 once he'd achieved the power to do evil 995 01:46:52,447 --> 01:46:56,784 just as he'd aIways done eviI in his life? 996 01:46:56,910 --> 01:47:03,332 All this meant nothing. 997 01:47:18,098 --> 01:47:19,849 THE BIG MAFIA TRIAL 998 01:47:19,975 --> 01:47:22,268 OCTOBER 23, the Tribunal acquits Giulio Andreotti 999 01:47:22,394 --> 01:47:24,979 of Mafia association, because there are no incriminating facts. 1000 01:47:25,105 --> 01:47:27,690 MAY 2, Palermo Appeals Court cannot proceed against Andreotti 1001 01:47:27,816 --> 01:47:30,401 for the crime of Mafia association committed up until Spring 1002 01:47:30,527 --> 01:47:32,403 because it is already statute-barred. 1003 01:47:32,529 --> 01:47:34,363 The rest of the sentence is confirmed. 1004 01:47:34,489 --> 01:47:39,952 OCTOBER 15, the Cassation Court confirms the Appeal Court sentence. 1005 01:47:40,078 --> 01:47:43,164 PECORELLI TRIAL 1006 01:47:43,290 --> 01:47:46,584 APRIL 30, Public Prosecutors request life imprisonment 1007 01:47:46,710 --> 01:47:49,795 for Andreotti, Vitalone, Badalamenti and CaIo as mandators. 1008 01:47:49,921 --> 01:47:53,257 SEPTEMBER 24, the Assizes Court acquits aII defendants. 1009 01:47:53,383 --> 01:47:56,552 NOVEMBER 16, the Appeals Court sentences Andreotti and Badalamenti 1010 01:47:56,678 --> 01:47:58,053 to 24 years imprisonment. 1011 01:47:58,180 --> 01:48:06,645 OCTOBER 30, the Cassation Court overruIes the sentence. 1012 01:48:06,771 --> 01:48:15,613 Andreotti and BadaIamenti acquitted of Pecorelli murder.