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De Civitate Rei

De Civitate Rei

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1993

Runtime

0h 29m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Original Title

De Civitate Rei

Director

Antonio Rezza

Description

Costante dies and leaves his wife Torella his computer discovery. Torella entrusts the disk to her husband’s friend Gervasio, a lazy man scorned by his family. Twenty years later, Torella tries to get back the disk but Gervasio, who has become rich thanks to the discovery, agrees to go to court over it and comes away the winner. He therefore summons divine misfortune: he loses his third son, suffocated by wealth; kills his wife in a blind rage; and is executed by his first-born son who, after a violent panic attack and reckoning with his conscience, chooses life.