Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

About Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012) is a crime history film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. Released in March 2012, it runs 129 minutes.

The film is filed under bomb, government conspiracy, anarchist, and milan.

Valerio Mastandrea takes the lead as Luigi Calabresi, Pierfrancesco Favino as Giuseppe Pinelli, Michela Cescon as Licia Pinelli, and Laura Chiatti as Gemma Calabresi. The screenplay is by Marco Tullio Giordana and Sandro Petraglia.

Good Morning, Night make useful companions to Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy, all filed under anni di piombo and years of lead. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 247 votes.