L'ombra di Caravaggio/Caravaggio's Shadow (Film 2022 - ENG SUB)

Caravaggio's Shadow (Italian: L'ombra di Caravaggio) is a 2022 Italian-French biographical historical drama film directed by Michele Placido. Audio in Italian with English subtitles (click on CC for subtitles).

In 1610 in Italy, Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, is considered a brilliant artist. He opposes church dogma, which dictates how religious subjects should be depicted in art. When Pope Paul V learns that Caravaggio uses prostitutes, thieves and vagabonds as models for his paintings, he orders an investigation into the artist by the Vatican secret service. The results of the investigation will determine whether Caravaggio's request to be pardoned from his death sentence for the murder of a rival will succeed. The lead investigator, known as "Shadow", reveals the contradictory vices and virtues of Caravaggio.

According to a study by Vincenzo Pacelli, professor at the University of Naples, supported by documents from the State Archives and the Vatican Archives, Caravaggio died not in Porto Ercole, but in Palo, a few kilometers from Civitavecchia, which at the time was Rome's port. And his was a violent death, indeed "a state murder." Organized "by the Order of Malta, for the offense committed against a powerful knight, with the tacit approval of the Roman Curia."

The film adopts this theory.

Cast & Characters:
Riccardo Scamarcio as Caravaggio
Louis Garrel as Schatten
Isabelle Huppert as Costanza Sforza Colonna
Micaela Ramazzotti as Lena Antonietti
Lolita Chammah as Anna Bianchini
Vinicio Marchioni as Giovanni Baglione
Gianfranco Gallo as Giordano Bruno
Moni Ovadia as Filippo Neri
Michele Placido as Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte
Tedua as Cecco
Maurizio Donadoni as Pope Paul V