Italian manager Paolo Sorrentino conquered the hearts of Catholic conservatives with the series “Young Pope” (2016). And seemingly he was afraid of the effects of the ambiguous pronunciation of this production, due to the fact that in the next series "New Pope" (2020) he had already returned to the safe waters of the primitive left-wing anti-clericalism and anti-Catholicism..
A lot of earlier, more subtle work by Sorrentin passed alternatively without echo among our conservatively-minded audience, and it is simply a pity, due to the fact that it deserves her attention more than the fantasy of the coming of the pope from the dreams of "traditional Catholicists". Talking about the 2008 movie "Boski" ("Il divo"), whose title hero is Giulio Andreotti (1919-2013).
The postwar past of Italy is typically divided into periods I of the Republic (1946-1994) and II of the Republic (from 1994 to today). The First Age of the Republic mainly involves the name of 1 political organization – Christian Democracy. Cristiana's democracy created or co-created all governments, for almost 50 years. The Twilight of the First Republic occurred between 1992 and 1994, erstwhile among the violent events followed, the scale of corruption in the governing spheres and their engagement in non-legal activities was revealed to the public. The shock was so strong that parties of chadeks and socialists after the half century of dominance in Italian politics disintegrated and disappeared from the political stage.
Christian Democracy was thus the most powerful organization in Italy's post-war past – and the most influential policy of the organization for decades was Andreotti. He first became a associate of the government in 1947. He later served 7 times as Prime Minister and twenty-five times as Minister of various ministries. Since 1991, he held the dignity of a lifelong senator from the nomination of president Francesca Cossiga, a organization colleague.
In his party, Andreotti led the wing's law—the faction "Jutrzenka" (Primavera), an association of supporters of Christian Democracy's cooperation with monarchs and post-fascists. The longest of the Chaldet politicians opposed entering coalitions with the left. Chadecia, however, yet reached an agreement with the Italian Socialist organization first, and even with the Italian Communist organization in 1976. The architect of the alleged "historic compromise" with communists was another organization colleague of Andreotti, Aldo Moro, Prime Minister from 1974 to 1976. In 1978, Moro was kidnapped and later murdered by terrorists from the Red Brigade organization. Andreotti, who then led the government, was later accused of deliberately killing Moro at the hands of the kidnappers. If that is the case, it may not be without a connection to the perfect conflict between Andreotti and Moro – but we will most likely never know.
It was widely thought that Andreotti remained in the silent center of everything that defined the face of the First Republic: government relations with the Italian mafia; unclear Vatican-related ventures; infiltration by secret services of extremist right-wing and left-wing organizations, which were then utilized to provoke political crises ("treasury strategies") and attacks on indicated targets, resulting in those times becoming past as anni di piombo, the "year of lead" (1968-1988) – an era of terrorism and political force on the streets of Italian cities. It featured an inspiration for mob executions on individuals who had information dangerous to the camp of power. He was gossiping about his private archive, where he was to carefully collect compromising materials on various participants in public life in Italy.
Sorrentin's movie shows the end of Andreotti, which turned out to be the dusk of the First Republic. The central feature of the game is the formal placement of a long series of charges, including corruption and cooperation with the mafia and even belonging to it, by the prosecutor for life in 1993. Later, there was a charge of incitement to murder. erstwhile the movie went to cinema, his hero was inactive alive. He was never liable for anything. After years of court trials, he was either cleared of charges, or was subject to statute of limitations.
"Il divo" suggestively reflects the atmosphere of solitude on the ice peaks of power (also thanks to the outstanding function played by actor Toni Servillo). It is simply a image of a policy that, in times supplemented by the marketing of parliamentary mediocrity, 1 can dream of – highly mastered and disciplined, of the iron will and nerves, emanating with cool kindness, and with all its makiavelism not only the believer, but even the devout. due to the fact that according to all available testimonies, this was Andreotti, privately friends with Pope Paul VI. Almost completely omitted in the movie the fact that his hero besides denouncing himself in public life as a Catholic intellectual, about a considerable literary achievement.
Only the essay “Jesus in China” (2001) was published in Poland, which Andreotti published in the late 1980s. This small book tells of the missionary Matthew Ricci (1552-1610), the apostle of the top nation of Asia. In order to make it easier for the Chinese to realize Christianity, Father Ricci accepted Chinese culture and customs and created a peculiar “Jesus rite” which would later bring considerable problem to the Order of St. His beatification process is presently underway, and the book itself is not a historical biography, but alternatively a sketch of his spiritual figure.
And the Republic for Italy present remains a circumstantial ancien régime. Andreotti was his personality and the most outstanding representative. present the last human being present on the phase ancien régime is Silvio Berlusconi – the same 1 that in 1994 together with regional-separatists from the North League and postfascists from the Italian Social Movement formed the first, right-wing government of the Second Republic. At the age of eighty-seven, inactive active in current politics, with the established opinion of the most pro-Russian leader in Western Europe.
For any time, the Jagiellonian Club has been spreading the slogans of the revival of the chades in Poland. If our reborn Christian Democracy is to look like in Andreotti's edition, I am ready to support this.
With 1 exception: it was during the regulation of Andreotti – practicing a Catholic, a profoundly spiritual man – abortion was legalized in Italy in 1978. There's no mention of that in the movie. Apparently, his creators found abortion uncontroversial.
Adam Danek
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Think Poland, No. 13-14 (26.03-2.04.2023)
