CaIvi was strangIed by Francesco Di CarIo,
on Pippo CaIò's orders.
Pippo CaIò was a very important man in Cosa Nostra,
he's capabIe of using his brain, he was Cosa Nostra's man in Rome.
He had Iinks with Bontate, then with Riina,
with the Camorra, with the Vatican, with the Secret Services,
with the P2 and the MagIiana Gang.
- If CaIò taIked... - If CaIò taIked...
he'd die after saying good morning.
On the subject of Moro, Pippo CaIò toId Bontate:
''Don't you get it ? His feIIow party members don't want him freed.''
In 1 983, BadaIamenti toId me there were secrets about Moro's kidnapping.
Secrets that troubIed the HonourabIe Mr. Andreotti.
Andreotti was worried they couId Ieak out.
OnIy two peopIe knew about these secrets:
GeneraI DaIIa Chiesa and Mino PecoreIIi, the journaIist.
BadaIamenti toId me that aIthough we'd kiIIed PecoreIIi,
it was a poIiticaI kiIIing
commissioned by the SaIvo cousins as a favour to Andreotti.
When DaIIa Chiesa was murdered, BadaIamenti said:
''They sent him to PaIermo to get rid of him.
He hadn't done anything in SiciIy
to justify aII that hate towards him.''
The PecoreIIi and DaIIa Chiesa cases are Iinked, gentIemen.
The government wouIdn't give DaIIa Chiesa speciaI anti-Mafia powers.
When DaIIa Chiesa was kiIIed, they bIamed the Mafia.
Some time after, I had a meeting with Lima and Nino SaIvo.
If DaIIa Chiesa was aIready powerIess on aII IeveIs, why kiII him ?
For some poIiticians, he'd have been more dangerous in retirement.
We're the ones who'II be fucked for a Iong time to come.
BadaIamenti toId me he'd met up with Andreotti in Rome,
to thank him for his concern
over a triaI regarding FiIippo Rimi, BadaIamenti's brother-in-Iaw.
BadaIamenti toId me that Andreotti congratuIated him, saying:
''Men Iike you...''
Men Iike you... are needed on every street in ItaIy.
BADALAMENTI'S ATTORNEY
It was said by Ciro Varga of the VaIIeIunga famiIy,
CataIdo Terminio of the San CataIdo famiIy,
and SaIvatore Ferrero of the CaItanisetta famiIy that...
GiuIio, I need to taIk to you in private.
..the HonourabIe Mr Lima was Andreotti's contact
for everything that concerned Cosa Nostra,
especiaIIy the triaIs.
Sebastiano Nardo toId me that Andreotti was ''pricked'',
he was initiated, a ''man of honour''.
Bontate toId me that Andreotti went to PaIermo to meet him,
Lima, the SaIvo cousins and the HonourabIe Mr NicoIetti.
It was between spring and summer of '79.
The meeting took pIace on a hunting reserve
and Bontate compIained to Andreotti
about the HonourabIe Mr MattareIIa's behaviour,
who wasn't Iending a heIping hand to the Mafia anymore.
There was a second meeting some months after MattareIIa's death.
We're in charge of SiciIy
and if you don't want the D.C. wiped out,
you'd better do as we say.
Otherwise we won't just take away the SiciIian votes,
but those from Reggio CaIabria and aII Southern ItaIy too.
You'II onIy have the North, where they aII vote Communist.
Take our votes.
And don't get any ideas about speciaI measures or Iaws
or there'II be other serious incidents.
But I'd point out that after '87, Andreotti stopped favouring anyone,
in fact he started fighting the Mafia.
Lima died because he represented that poIiticaI faction
which had made use of Cosa Nostra's votes
then reneged on its commitments during the Big Mafia TriaI.
I can't be more precise about when the meeting took pIace
because it's hard to put a date on my memories.
You know that what you're teIIing us is aImost unbeIievabIe ?
Yes.
But it was aIso unbeIievabIe that Riina was captured
after years on the run, but it happened. Thanks to me.
Come with me.
Livia, the PaIermo Judges sent notification
that I'm under investigation for Mafia connections.
They'II ask for authorization to proceed against me.
And this time they'II get it.
I know who you are.
You can't spend your Iife with a man and not know who he is.
I know who you are. And we'II defend ourseIves.
l don't know if Riina and Andreotti met or not.
But if they did, l'm sure they kissed.
Andreotti spoke about the Mafia, well, he spoke about himself...
Why must the good ones always die, like the mafioso Liggio ?
When Andreotti dies, they'll take the black box out of his hump
and we'll finally know...
...like a miraculous lucky dip
lt's wonderful to dip in while suspended
From a soft, pink cloud
Me like a gentleman
And you like...
A bride
While outside the window
Only the dust blows
A storm's brewing
We two are from a distant planet
But from here, the world seems like a secret trap door
Everyone wants everything
Only to realise
That it's all nothing
We won't be like other people
These will always be
The best years of our lives
Hold me tight, no night lasts forever...
Livia, your IiveIy eyes dazzIed me
one afternoon in the Verano cemetery.
I chose that odd pIace to ask you to marry me.
Remember ? Yes, I know, you remember.
Your IiveIy, innocent, enchanted eyes didn't know,
don't know and wiII never know.
They have no idea of the deeds that power must commit
to ensure the weII-being and deveIopment of the country.
For too Iong that power was me.
The monstrous, unavowabIe contradiction:
perpetrating eviI to guarantee good.
The monstrous contradiction that made me
a cynicaI man that even you couIdn't decipher.
Your IiveIy, innocent eyes don't know the responsibiIity.
The direct and indirect responsibiIity
for aII the carnage in ItaIy from 1 969 to 1 984
that Ieft preciseIy 236 dead and 81 7 injured.
To aII the famiIies of the victims I say that I confess.
I confess that it was my fauIt, my most grievous fauIt.
I'II say it, even if it's pointIess.
Havoc used to destabiIize the country,
to provoke terror to isoIate the extremist parties
and strengthen the centre ones Iike the Christian Democrats...
has been described as ''tension strategy''.
It wouId be more correct to say: ''survivaI strategy''.
Roberto, MicheIe, Giorgio, CarIo AIberto,
Giovanni, Mino, dear AIdo,
by vocation or necessity, aII confirmed Iovers of the truth.
AII bombs ready to expIode that were defused into siIence.
AII of them thinking truth is the right thing,
but actuaIIy it's the end of the worId.
We can't aIIow the end of the worId
in the name of what's right.
We have a task, a divine task.
We must Iove God greatIy
to understand how necessary eviI is for good.
God knows it, I know it too.
One can be dull but honest, dull but good,
dull but full of fervour.
Well, Honourable Mr Andreotti, that is just what you lack.
You lack human fervour.
Along with the goodness, wisdom, flexibility, transparency
that undeniably make up
the few real Christian Democrats that exist in the world.
You'll last a little longer, or a little less,
but you'll vanish without a trace.
You'll be a mere news item,
especially now that it suits you.
- How Iong did you waIk ? - AII night.
- My Iegs are reaIIy hurting. - Take more care: stress, your age...
- Tedax wouId make me happy. - It was taken off the codex.
Stop the nervous waIking, try doing some sports.
AII my sporty friends are dead.
Chance.
I don't beIieve in chance. I beIieve in the wiII of God.
- I'm sorry. - No, don't say anything.
It's for the best, I'II retire to the country and pick chicory.
- Chicory's good. - Yes, it's poIitics that's bad.
And to teII the truth, I'm tired of it.
It's for the best.
Andreotti says he has too many IegaI expenses
and now that he's not in the government...
Poor Andreotti, he was aIways on his own.
Now even more so.
- What's in there ? - Love Ietters.
You wouIdn't think it, but women Iiked Andreotti.
They wrote him Iots of Ietters.
But I never Iet him see them.
I don't want troubIe.
Have you read them, Miss Enea ?
I know fuII weII, Senator,
that there are certain things in Iife one mustn't see.
PRIVATE ARCHIVES OF GIULIO ANDREOTTI
I can say with a sense of responsibiIity that I'd prefer
the Mafia to have eIiminated me in the same way they did DaIIa Chiesa
than to end up here, not knowing how to defend myseIf against Iies.
I never met the SaIvo cousins in my Iife.
I never associated with them
and Lima never hinted at matters pertaining to the Mafia.
I do not know Bontate, I do not know BadaIamenti.
I have never had secret meetings with them.
My movements are constantIy controIIed by the poIice.
I am under speciaI surveiIIance, I want there to be no doubt.
As for the authorization to proceed, I'm in your hands.
Senator, if we use our vote
to bIock further investigations by the judiciary,
what wiII be Ieft of this country's institutions ?
I understand the risk but...
we cannot aIIow the judiciary to govern.
That's aII for now.
WouId you Iike to add anything eIse, Senator Andreotti ?
Go ahead.
For many years I have been ItaIy's internationaI representative.
A country Ied by someone who reports to the Mafia
does not have much credibiIity in the worId arena.
I'm not the onIy one who'II be discredited by this.
You've Iost more weight.
And my hand shakes when I write.
Because you don't sIeep anymore.
Yes, I don't sIeep anymore.
Your friends from the faction don't caII anymore.
Pray for them, Livia. They were destroyed too.
By whom ?
By Iife
and by accusations of bribery.
Is it far ?
26 times for 26 different accusaIs,
I was brought before the investigating committee.
They made me taIk for days on end.
But each time, the case was dismissed.
Dismissed, dismissed, dismissed...
We're here to taIk about presumed governmentaI responsibiIity
in the Piazza Fontana massacre.
I don't remember...
I was onIy informed of the facts. I couIdn't know about that.
You remember meeting GeIIi ?
I don't remember, I don't remember, I don't remember.
De Gasperi said of you: ''He's so capabIe at everything,
he couId become capabIe of anything.''
Leave De Gasperi out of this.
I met GeIIi briefIy in Frosinone,
he was a manager of the PermafIex mattress company.
Years Iater I saw him in Argentina and thought:
''He Iooks Iike the manager of PermafIex.''
CarIo Bordoni, Sindona's son-in-Iaw,
and Mrs CaIvi accuse you
of being the master of the P2 Iodge, not GeIIi.
I'd never have settIed for being master of just one Iodge.
Mrs CaIvi made that accusation years ago,
I wrote to her expressing my sympathy
for her grief and impIoring her not to foster such scandaIs.
The Christian Democrats did aII they couId to save Moro.
It was one of the most agonizing things I've ever experienced.
It's one thing to fight poIiticaI battIes,
but to say that we didn't do everything possibIe to save Moro...
That is truIy...
I've made many mistakes in my Iife but I never had Mafia ties.
Never ! Ever !
A man is here today
who once had the courage to say to Pope John XXIII:
''Excuse me, Your HoIiness, but you don't know the Vatican.''
He was right.
GiuIio Andreotti is here with us today.
The committee has given the go-ahead.
There wiII be a triaI.
REBIBBIA PRISON. MAXIMUM SECURITY COURTROOM.
Here he is !
He's coming.
Mr Riina, have you ever met GiuIio Andreotti ?
Have you ever kissed him ?
Have you ever met Senator Andreotti ?
Today's a beautifuI day.
- Do you feeI safe in prison ? - We're safe anywhere.
- We who ? - What do you expect from the court ?
OnIy good things.
- Do you know the turncoat MutoIo? - No.
- And Senator Andreotti? - That's enough, back off.
May I have some fizzy water, pIease ?
PecoreIIi said he had Moro's compIete memoirs
and that they contained reveIations about Andreotti.
Once, around two in the morning,
GeneraI DaIIa Chiesa came to see me
with a manuscript of about 50 pages that Moro had written.
He said he was going to give it to Andreotti the next day.
Yes, that's what he said.
The news is faIse and sIanderous.
I never met Ignazio SaIvo or Riina.
If Di Maggio recognises SaIvo's house, it's his business.
Come on Senator, teII the truth.
Who induced you to accuse me ? We've never met.
Sure we have. I'm taIking about stuff that I saw myseIf.
They got Riina because of this.
My conscience is at peace. Do the same for yours.
My cIient wiII not be subjected to such tones.
That wiII be aII, Di Maggio.
- Let's continue. - No.
First I'd Iike my statement to be minuted.
Because even though I recognise that aII men are equaI,
I feeI deepIy humiIiated
by a confrontation with a Mafioso, even if he's a turncoat.
How are you, Premier ?
So so... And you ?
BasicaIIy, I'm bored.
BasicaIIy,
so am I.
Goodbye, Premier.
Goodbye.
Premier...
don't sIouch.
ItaIian cuisine is deIicious, especiaIIy the Roman dishes.
- Know how this sauce got its name ? - Yes, I know.
GiuIio, you're good at Iistening, making wisecracks,
you have perseverance, the abiIity to concentrate and to hoId out.
But that's it.
They depict you as cunning, cuItured, very inteIIigent.
I say that's not the case.
What's made you so criticaI suddenIy ?
Nothing, just the need to estabIish the truth occasionaIIy.
A need you've never had.
You Iive Ionger without needs.
Another wisecrack.
My blood will spill upon you.
PeopIe know you and I didn't get rich from poIitics,
but they think that power is what interested us for 40 years.
They think it makes us happy: maintaining our positions.
They forget, or pretend to forget,
that we actuaIIy saved their Iives.
They forget the Soviet threat was reaI and cIose by.
We Iet AIdo Moro die.
And if I have grey hair and Iiver spots on my skin,
it's because whiIe we Iet Moro die,
I was aware of it.
What about you, GiuIio ?
Do you remember that sociaIist, Nenni ?
Enthusiastic, passionate.
He said: ''I'm going to put the nationaI raiIway back on track''.
I said: ''In the madhouse, those who don't cIaim to be NapoIeon,
cIaim they'II put the nationaI raiIway back on track.''
Nenni and I hated each other.
But we esteemed and respected each other,
both of us.
It's not Iike that today.
Don't be disheartened by the inquiry into PecoreIIi's death.
It's funny.
I'm disheartened by IittIe things, not serious accusations.
You know what discourages me ?
The news that I've been removed as president of The Music Society.
I'II Iose my Iectureship at the Institute of Ciceronian Studies
and perhaps even the honorary degrees.
I aIways thought my vanity was a great defect.
- But I'm comforted by taIking to you. - It's nothing to do with vanity.
I'm from the provinces, from a humbIe background.
CuIturaI rather than poIiticaI Iegitimisation was more important.
I aIways preferred to be seen as a cuItured man
rather than a great statesman.
Francesco, I must confess something I've never dared admit to anyone.
Not even to myseIf.
- TeII me, GiuIio. - But it must remain between us.
It wouIdn't be the first time.
I've aIways had a secret.
A passion.
A passion for Mary Gassman, the famous actor's sister.
She never knew and she never reciprocated.
I'm sure she wouIdn't have, even if she'd known.
She was marveIIous, Mary Gassman.
She took my sIeep away, she took my breath away.
AII I did at schooI was think about her.
Then I got married...
and I forgot her.
I must taIk to you.
From today, we wiII appIy the phiIosophy of St. Bernard:
see everything, toIerate a Iot, correct one thing at a time.
Because if it's true that Christians must turn the other cheek,
it's aIso true that Jesus Christ, very inteIIigentIy,
onIy gave us two.
The Big Mafia TriaI is about to begin.
I wiII defend myseIf with aII my might.
And I have pIenty of it.
To the activism of the PaIermo pubIic prosecutor's office,
we can add that of the Perugia pubIic prosecutor's office.
WhiIst gathering statements from Buscetta
about the existence of compromising writings by Moro
that GeneraI DaIIa Chiesa was supposed to have hidden
and that the murdered journaIist, Mino PecoreIIi, was about to pubIish,
another request has been made for my committaI to triaI.
This new accusation cIaims
that I was the mandator in Mino PecoreIIi's kiIIing.
What can I say that my Iife has not aIready made cIear ?
Their theorem worries me.
The prosecutors assert that a Mafioso cannot Iie.
So this brotherhood's members are marked by the fact
that they can kiII up to 20 peopIe in Mannoia's case,
or, if they show restraint, 1 0 peopIe in Di Maggio's case.
However, they can never be suspected of Iying.
The fact that I took a very hard Iine of action with the Mafia
in regards to government IegisIation, counts for nothing.
They said I pretended to be tough on the Mafia.
At this point, I'm starting to think they're in Ieague.
What's your reaction to EvangeIisti's statement ?
I never had a secret meeting with DaIIa Chiesa.
If Franco cIaimed that, he must have dreamed it.
Is there a conspiracy against you ?
Look, since aII the turncoats are making faIse statements,
I must assume that they have an unknown prompter,
since a concurrence of this type wouId be most difficuIt.
Yes, because their statements aII concur,
yet we know there's been no contact between them.
They're heId by different bodies.
Doesn't the theory of a pIot against you seem impIausibIe ?
Not at aII.
Thank you everyone.
Of course...
aII right.
We can go.
Andreotti's triaI begins.
The first hearing, in what has been caIIed the ''triaI of the century'',
wiII start at 1 0, tomorrow morning.
As time goes by, I'm more convinced Andreotti is an extraterrestriaI.
We haven't understood that he beIongs to a tradition
that has made the history of the Church immortaI.
He carries 2,000 years of history inside him.
There's Christ's sacrifice, Pope Joan,
the Inquisition, the Borgias and dipIomacy.
I'm not surprised that Andreotti
has been marked as mandator in the PecoreIIi murder.
ProbabIy, the issue of his magazine with the Senator's photo on the cover
is at the root of his death.
If Andreotti had wanted to kiII everyone he found troubIesome,
he'd have had to take on enemies much greater than PecoreIIi.
Maybe a whoIe cemetery wouIdn't have been big enough.
TaIIeyrand comes to mind when you think of Andreotti.
T-A-L-L-
E-Y-R-A-N-D- fuII stop.
They both had the same objective, coIon, power, fuII stop.
But the compIexity of Andreotti's character comma...
makes up part, comma, if one can say, comma, of his greatness fuII stop.
The greatness of the enigma fuII stop.
HeIIo Livia...
.. yes, I got some sIeep.
I Iove you too.
The Court is in session.
Be seated. We'II begin with the representatives.
Is the defendant GiuIio Andreotti present ?
PIease sit down.
Defence attorneys: Odoardo Ascari and Franco Coppi.
Have substitutes been designated ?
Andreotti remained indifferent, leaden, distant,
cocooned in his dark dream of glory.
He'd had to further his reactionary plan,
not disappoint the Communists, the Germans
and who knows who else.
What was the meaning, in the face of all this,
of the inconsolable grief of an old spouse,
the destruction of a family ?
What did all this mean for Andreotti,
once he'd achieved the power to do evil
just as he'd always done evil in his life ?
All this meant nothing.
THE BIG MAFIA TRIAL
23 OCTOBER 1 999: the TribunaI acquits GiuIio Andreotti
of Mafia association, because there are no incriminating facts.
2 MAY 2003: PaIermo AppeaIs Court cannot proceed against Andreotti
for the crime of Mafia association
committed up untiI Spring 1 980 because it is aIready statute-barred.
The rest of the sentence is confirmed.
1 5 OCTOBER 2004: the Cassation Court confirms the AppeaI Court sentence.
PECORELLI TRIAL
30 APRIL 1 999: PubIic Prosecutors request Iife imprisonment for
Andreotti, VitaIone, BadaIamenti and CaIò as mandators
24 SEPTEMBER 1 999: the Assizes Court acquits aII defendants.
1 6 NOVEMBER 2002: the AppeaIs Court sentences Andreotti and BadaIamenti
to 24 years imprisonment.
30 OCTOBER 2003: the Cassation Court overruIes the sentence.
Andreotti and BadaIamenti acquitted of PecoreIIi murder.
SubtitIes: Laser S. FiIm s.r.I. - Rome