The watershed moment of the Italian Republic, its fundamental importance for what it produced in the following years highlighted in the incipit, which is the alternative ending of the true story. A film that does not save anything, neither terrorists nor institutions, much less their ideals. The protagonists of those weeks on both sides are all equally condemned, yet for them it is impossible not to feel pity, their more human side being dramatically exposed.

After the devaluation of the institutions from the point of view of its exponents, Cossiga / Alesi and Paolo VI / Servillo reduced to little men in the 1st part... there it is the identity crisis of the others men in the 2nd, Faranda / Marra and Nora Moro / Buy both executioners in spite of themselves, both who struggle to recognize themselves in a photo-sign and on television. Both witnessing the collapse of the foundations of their social life, the surreal vanity of the armed revolution and the facade hypocrisy of Catholic marriage. Collapse to which they react by shedding a single tear, only when faced with the responsibility for their actions, which they will try to remedy until the very end.

Everything closes by returning to the first point of view with Aldo Moro / Gifuni, however radically another person compared to the one in the 1st part: not the "crazy kidnapper" touted by "ex-friends" but rather lucid as never before, ready to confess the guilty indulgence of the already deceased 'free-Aldo' towards the aforementioned, Andreotti in particular being targeted by a ruthless final invective which bitter mouth considering what the post-Moro Italy's First Republic was and what it could have been without this watershed.

6 episodes to watch at all cost. Despite the television weakening compared to the big screen, the value of many scenes will still shine through their very strong visual and narrative symbolism, Cossiga's 'cyclothymic photography', Paul VI's martyrizing obsession, Faranda's maternal remorse, Noretta's dreamlike affection for a ghost that is finally palpable after 30 years of marriage. And the acting... in particular for Gifuni and Buy, I had no doubts even for a second that they were the real Moro spouses. Extraordinary interpretations compared to a cast that is already beyond the ordinary.