Genre: Drama

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Marco Bellocchio

Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio, Maya Sansa, Roberto Herlitzka, Paolo Briguglia & Pier Giorgio Bellocchio

Released: 2003

Duration: 103 Minutes

Rating: M

Distribution: Palace Films

Winner 2004 Italian Academy Awards (David di Donatello): Best supporting actor plus 6 nominations; Venice Film festival 2003: Little Golden Lion, CinemAvvenire and Outstanding contribution awards; European Film awards 2003: FIPRESCI award

A multi award winning drama based on the true story of the 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, a former Prime Minister. A crime that stunned the nation and a story that chillingly resounds in a time when terrorism and extreme fundamentalism are proliferating around the world. The events are recreated with the help of TV news footage.

The reenactment is told from the perspective of Chiara (Maya Sansa), one of four members of the Red Brigade cell that orchestrated the crime from behind a screen of quiet bourgeois domesticity. We see the complex world during the years of terrorism known in Italy as “anni di piombo (years of lead)” through Chiara’s often lost and frightened viewpoint as she comes to question her own political beliefs and to realize that there is little that distinguishes left from right wing tyranny.

An unsettling film, ‘Good morning, night’ is a hugely engrossing and intelligent exploration of the nature of imprisonment and the failure of radical ideology from one of Italy’s most acclaimed directors Marco Bellocchio (My mother’s smile).

“A moving and intelligent film.” Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood reporter. “Ms Sansa is an actress of exquisite sensitivity.” A O Scott, New York Times