March 16, 1978, on a street of Rome five bodyguards were gunned down and Italian prime minister Aldo Moro kidnapped. Some days later the first messages from the Brigate Rosse, a terrorist organization ...

At the start of The Big Fake, a Netflix dramatization of one criminal’s involvement in the most tumultuous events in post-war Italy, Toni Chichiarelli (Pietro Castellitto) is a talented painter living ...

The some 60 credits of Italian director Marco Bellocchio are peppered with features and series inspired by real people caught up in dark chapters of Italian history. His last movie Kidnapped: The ...

Sciences Po provides funding as a member of The Conversation FR. Central Rome, 9 May 1978. A crowd of curious passersby spills out by an open car boot. There lies the bullet-riddled body of Aldo Moro, ...

Veteran Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio returned to Cannes this year with “Exterior Night,” a limited TV series about the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro ...

The Italian master Marco Bellocchio turns to TV, revisiting the mysteries of the Aldo Moro affair. By Mike Hale When the great Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio made “Good Morning, Night” in 2003, ...

film profile], presented in competition at Venice Film Festival in 2003, the director tells the story of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro (played by Roberto Herlitzka), from the point of view of the ...

At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, the band of the Red Brigades went on the attack.