''Lord of the Ants'' ( it, Il signore delle formiche, literally "The Lord of the Ants") is a 2022 Italian biographical and

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film co-written and directed by Gianni Amelio. The film was entered into the main competition at the

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Plot

A chronicle of the 1964–1968 judicial affair involving homosexual writer Aldo Braibanti, an

anti-fascist Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and during World War II, where the Axis powers were ...

playwright who was accused of having mentally manipulated two lovers.

Cast

* Luigi Lo Cascio as Aldo Braibanti *

Elio Germano Elio Germano (born 25 September 1980) is an Italian actor. He is the recipient of many accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and a Silver Bear for Best Actor. Life and career Born in Rome to a Molisan family from Duro ...

as Ennio Scribani * Leonardo Maltese as Ettore Tagliaferri * Davide Vecchi as Riccardo Tagliaferri *

Sara Serraiocco Sara Serraiocco (born 13 August 1990) is an Italian actress, best known for playing Baldwin in the TV series '' Counterpart''. Life and career Born in Pescara, Serraiocco developed from a young age a passion for dance and cinema, later workin ...

as Graziella *

Anna Caterina Antonacci Anna Caterina Antonacci (born 5 April 1961) is an Italian soprano known for roles in the bel canto and Baroque repertories. She performed as a mezzo-soprano for several years, particularly performing the Rossini canon. Career Antonacci stu ...

as Ettore's Mother * Valerio Binasco as Prosecutor

Reception

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, the film has an approval rating of 70% based on 10 reviews.

Historical inaccurancies

A number of critics cited several inaccurancies in the film. The film incorrectly reported the position of ''

l'Unità ''l'Unità'' (, lit. 'the Unity') was an Italian newspaper, founded as the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1924. It was supportive of that party's successor parties, the Democratic Party of the Left, Democrats of the ...

'', the official organ of the Italian Communist Party, which in fact openly took a position in favour of Braibanti and against the sentence, so much so that the day after the ruling it published an editorial by its director, the former partisan , in which the obscurantist climate in which the trial had taken place was denounced in no uncertain terms. , the reporter from ''l'Unità'' who followed the case, was not only strongly supported by the direction of the newspaper but continued to work profitably for many years after the closure of the case.

References

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* 2020s Italian films 2020s Italian-language films 2022 drama films 2022 films 2022 LGBT-related films Biographical films about LGBT people Films directed by Gianni Amelio Italian biographical drama films Italian LGBT-related films LGBT-related drama films {{2020s-Italy-film-stub