World premiere, The Shadow of Caravaggio at the Rome Film Festival

The world premiere of the film L’Ombra di Caravaggio, produced by Goldenart Production with Rai Cinema, will be shown at the Rome Film Festival, which will be held Oct. 13-23, 2022.

Michele Placido’s film, which stars Riccardo Scamarcio as Caravaggio, will be released in theaters on November 3, 2022, but will first be part of the official selection of the Festa del Cinema, in the Grand Public section.

Written, directed and starring Michele Placido (in the role of Cardinal del Monte), who after a fifty-year career and four years working on the project, signs his fourteenth film as director, L’Ombra di Caravaggio is an Italian-French co-production signed by Goldenart Production with Rai Cinema and for France Charlot, Le Pacte and Mact Production. The film explores the intricate and adventurous existence of Michelangelo Merisi, told in his deep contradictions and the darkness of his torment. Rebellious and restless, devout and scandalous, independent and transgressive, the Caravaggio that Placido stages is a cursed artist of absolute talent, in whom genius and unruliness coexist.

The international cast counts the participation, in addition to Riccardo Scamarcio in the title role, of Louis Garrel (the Shadow), Isabelle Huppert (Costanza Colonna), Micaela Ramazzotti (Lena), Tedua (Cecco), Vinicio Marchioni (Baglione) and Lolita Chammah (Anna), who are joined by Alessandro Haber (Battista), Moni Ovadia (Filippo Neri), Brenno Placido (Ranuccio), Maurizio Donadoni (Pope Paul V), Lorenzo Lavia (Orazio Gentileschi), Gianfranco Gallo (Giordano Bruno), Lea Gavino(Artemisia Gentileschi), Gianluca Gobbi (Scipione Borghese), and other actors and actresses.

World premiere, The Shadow of Caravaggio at the Rome Film Festival

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