Good Morning, Night (2003) on Netflix
Chiara belongs to a Red Brigades group that rents an apartment and kidnaps Aldo Moro, Italy's former prime minister. She has doubts about the plan, and the government will not negotiate.
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Plot summary
The Red Brigades members who carry out the kidnapping of Aldo Moro rent an apartment first, and one of them, Chiara, has doubts about the plan. Mariano leads the group. The kidnapping happens in 1978. Moro is the former prime minister of Italy and the leader of the Democrazia Cristiana, the country's leading political party at the time. He writes many letters to politicians, to Pope Paul VI and to his family. The Italian government will not negotiate.
Cast
- Gianni Schicchi
- Carlo Castelli
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Good Morning, Night (2003)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Good Morning, Night was the favourite to win the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival but took only the screenplay award; a disappointed Marco Bellocchio abandoned the event, leaving the actor Luigi Lo Cascio to collect the prize, and Rai Cinema announced in protest that it no longer wanted to take part.
- The line spoken by the Red Brigades leader Mariano, that the imminent killing of Aldo Moro "is the highest act of humanity possible in a society divided into classes", was taken directly from a May 10 press statement by the imprisoned Red Brigades founders Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini, read in a courtroom at the La Marmora barracks in Turin.
- The film's Italian title Buongiorno, notte comes from Emily Dickinson's poem Good morning, midnight, in the 2001 translation by the poet and novelist Nicola Gardini, who was the first to use the Italian form Buongiorno, notte.
