The Viceroys

Plot

Roberto Faenza’s direction re-discovers the novel by Federico De Roberto, a fierce fresco of shocking modernity about family, church and state. A powerful Sicilian family where the father, a superstitious tyrant, takes away from his daughter the right to love. A monastery where the monks live with their lovers. The birth of politics in the name of corruption and opportunism. A spectacular fresco, a most cruel radiography of the vices of Italians. The director benefits from a magnificent technical cast, from the costumes designed by 4 times Oscar®winning Milena Canonero, to the baroque settings of Francesco Frigeri, production designer of the TV series The Name of the Rose, to a chorus of interpreters in perfect balance between good and evil, realism and magic.