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In the Name of the Father
In the Name of the Father
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IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

Nel nome del padre

Directed by Marco Bellocchio
Italy, 1971
Drama

Synopsis

It’s 1958, the year of the death of Pius XII, the most clerical and authoritarian of modern pontiffs. In a boarding school, the handsome, rich and rebellious Angelo Transeunti arrives. He is a devotee of the “overman”. With his arrival, the school life is shattered.

Synopsis

It’s 1958, the year of the death of Pius XII, the most clerical and authoritarian of modern pontiffs. In a boarding school, the handsome, rich and rebellious Angelo Transeunti arrives. He is a devotee of the “overman”. With his arrival, the school life is shattered.