Piazza delle cinque lune (2003)

Director:

Renzo Martinelli

Writers:

Fabio Campus (writer)
Renzo Martinelli (writer)

Release Date:

9 May 2003 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Politician | Years Of Lead | Kidnapping | Italy | Italian Intelligence

Cast

Donald Sutherland	...	Rosario Sarracino
Giancarlo Giannini	...	Branco
Stefania Rocca	...	Fernanda
Aisha Cerami	...	Ombretta
F. Murray Abraham	...	Entita'
Greg Wise	...	Francesco Doni
Nicola Di Pinto	...	Antiquario
Federica Martinelli	...	Tecnico informatico
Philippe Leroy	...	Barista
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pino Calabrese	...	Marini
Pietro Ghislandi
Ruby Kammer	...	Daughter of Fernanda
Massimo Tellini	...	Terrorista
Massimiliano Ubaldi	...	1° attentatore killer
Massimo Vanni	...	Terrorista

Also Known As:

Five Moons Plaza (International: English title)
Five Moons Square (Australia)

Runtime:

Brazil:115 min | Italy:90 min

Country:

Italy | UK

Language:

Italian | English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Siena, Tuscany, Italy

Company:

Blue Spice Film Ltd.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Judge Sarracini looks at a painting in a shop and says it's a piece made by a Lorenzetti's follower in XIV century. Actually the style is obviously later, at least XV century or Renaissance.

Okay thriller will leave you lost if you don't know about the murder of Aldo Moro

On the eve of retirement a respected and fair minded honest judge is given a film of the murder of Aldo Moro. Troubled by what he sees and by strange events around him the judge begins to investigate what really happened to Moro.

This is a well acted but run of the mill thriller. Donald Sutherland as the judge is good, as always, but he is given very little to do other than move from place to place to reveal the next plot point (in more than one sense). The problem is that unless you know what happened to Moro and what that meant for Italy you're going to be left out in the cold for a good chunk of this film. I'm not saying that you can't enjoy the film not knowing what happened, you can, its just that the deeper implications will be lost. I myself was lost, since the Moro murder was so long ago and effected me very little here in the US. I wish they had taken a page out of Oliver Stone's JFK and constructed the film in such away that it brought you into the story and the events in such away that you didn't know you were being spoon fed. There is no effort to tell you anything, it just throws you in. Its disappointing.

This should have been a good thriller and instead its just okay. If Aldo Moro and his death are well known to you you then odds are you'll find this a better movie. If Moro means nothing to you this is just another political thriller based on real events saved by good performances.