Viva la Liberta

Description

As the national election approaches, disgraced ideologue and party leader Enrico Oliveri (Toni Servillo) has plummeted in the polls, and his supporters and adversaries alike begin to acknowledge his impending downfall. Unwilling to face the failure of his party and his nation, Oliveri vanishes. In a desperate move, the party leadership seeks out Oliveri s lookalike twin brother, Giovanni Ernani (also Servillo), a prolific author and philosopher who is freshly released from an insane asylum. Giovanni quickly surpasses his brother s political prowess with an eerie talent for rallying the masses through fearless and heroic speeches. Director Roberto Andò shifts between the failure of the sincere intellectual and the heroics of a madman, probing the driving forces behind our contemporary global political reality and leaving behind a rich web of questions in this unpredictable and provocative thriller.