""You have six months left", said the army doctor when I was called up." "Years later I looked him up:" "I wanted him to see I was alive, but he was dead." "It always went that way." "They'd predict my demise and I'd survive." "They'd die instead." "On the other hand, I've suffered splitting headaches all my life." "Now I'm using a Chinese remedy, but I've tried everything." "In its day, the drug Optalidon looked really promising." "I even sent a supply to a journalist:" "Mino Pecorelli." "He's dead too." "THE SPECTACULAR LIFE OF GIULIO ANDREOTTI" ""The Premier's Cheques"" "ROBERTO CALVI." "BANKER 17 JUNE 1982" "MICHELE SINDONA." "BANKER 22 MARCH 1986" "MINO PECORELLI." "JOURNALIST 20 MARCH 1979" "CARLO ALBERTO DALLA CHIESA CARABINIERI GENERAL, 3 SEPT. 1982" "GIORGIO AMBROSOLI." "LIQUIDATOR "PRIVATA ITALIANA' BANK, 12 JULY 1979" "ALDO MORO." "DC PRESIDENT, 9 MAY 1978" "GIOVANNI FALCONE MAGISTRATE, 23 MAY 1992" "ROME." "THE EARLY 90s" "Massacres and conspiracies are the work of Craxi and Andreotti" " What time did you wake up, Giulio?" " 4:30." "The great La Pira would wake at 3:30." "He was a saint." "I'm a sinner." " How many times, Giulio?" " As of today, seven." "Seven times Premier, twenty-five times minister." "I never had such an illustrious parishioner." "We're all illustrious in God's eyes." "Montanelli said:" ""De Gasperi and Andreotti went to mass together, everyone thought they did the same thing but it wasn't so." "In church, De Gasperi talked to God." "Andreotti talked to the priest." "Priests vote." "God doesn't." "Mario, I want to confess." "Of course, Giulio." "Premier, don't slouch." "I'm comfortable like this." "Premier, storm clouds are gathering." "PRESS AGENTS OF PAOLO CIRINO POMICINO" "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER alias "THE MINISTER"" "FRANCO EVANGELISTI." "ANDREOTTI'S RIGHT HAND MAN alias "THE LEMON"" "Hello yes, excuse me." "GIUSEPPE CIARRAPICO BUSINESSMAN alias "CIARRA"" "VITTORIO SBARDELLA DC MP alias "THE SHARK"" "CARDINAL FIORENZO ANGELINI alias: "HIS HEALTHINESS"" "THE ANDREOTTI FACTION OF THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS" "Fiorenzo, sit on the throne." "How's the Pope doing?" "I was on TV yesterday." "There was talk of priests in trouble." "I quoted Pius XI." "Whenever they mentioned a priest in trouble to him, he always said the same five words." " What?" " What is the lady's name?" " The Lad's in good form." " Thank you for calling me "lad"." "The usual nasty journalist pushed the same old button:" "My faction... according to her it's teeming with bad company." "What did you reply?" "One can never be too cautious about the company one keeps." "After all, Jesus had Judas amongst his disciples." " What's eating you, Salvo?" " Nothing." "Rome's so beautiful." "And it's so calm too." "Fiorenzo, I'd like Tedax to stay in the pharmaceutical codex, it's relieving the suffering of many." "Giulio, Tedax is problematic, it doesn't..." "Tell me about my favourite pony." "Craxi was on the warpath, he kept yelling:" ""I'd sooner cut my balls off than see your Mazza as bank president."" " Who got the job?" " Our Mazza." "Have you already asked Craxi to comply?" "It's relieving the suffering of many." "Giulio, I need to talk to you in private." "And Vittorio also has ideas about the faction that not only differ from ours, but they're excessive too." "I propose... to arrange in a more widely distributed manner... that would only be difficult..." "Boys, behave yourselves." "Today is the inception of the 7th Andreotti government." "Today's a day of celebration." "Let's all behave." "SALVO LIMA DC MP alias "HIS EXCELLENC Y"" "Today's a day of celebration." "Good morning, Premier." "Do you know the way?" "It's vaguely familiar, thank you." "The President of the Republic, Francesco Cossiga." "THE 7TH ANDREOTTI GOVERNMENT" "Premier..." "Apart from the Punic Wars," "I've been blamed for everything that's happened in Italy." "They've honoured me with several nicknames:" "The Divine Julius, The First Letter of the Alphabet," "The Hunchback, The Fox, Moloch," "The Salamander, The Black Pope, Eternity," "Man of Darkness, Beelzebub." "But I've never pressed charges for a simple reason:" "I have a sense of humour." "I have something else too:" "A vast archive in place of an imagination." "Every time I mention it, those who should shut up do so, as if by magic." " You may go in, ma'am." " Wait!" "What's wrong?" "Everyone says he's a dangerous man." "Andreotti isn't dangerous." "He's daring." "That's quite a different thing." "Is there anything I should know about him?" "Yes, his hands." "Watch them closely." "If he twiddles his thumbs, he thinks you're intelligent." "If he plays with his ring, it means he disagrees with what you're saying." "If he rhythmically taps his fingertips together, it means you'll be dismissed within the next five minutes." "What about when his eyes suddenly dilate?" "I don't know, no one does." "Good luck." "Thank you." "Giulio, it's midnight, we have to go." "Don't forget you're leaving tomorrow." "Yes, Livia." " Thank you for coming, Andreotti." " Goodbye, Paolo." "MOSCOW." "THE KREMLIN" "Hello, I'm the Premier." "I'm more important, I'm his wife." " Did you go to play cards?" " Yes." "I wore the coat that Saddam Hussein gave you." "Marisa loved it and asked where I bought it." "I was a bit hesitant to say because it seemed like I was boasting." " How's Gorbachov?" " State Secret." "Is that birthmark on his head unsightly?" "I don't mind it." "Are you going to bed now?" "First I have to do some Cossack dancing." " Say "trimarri"." " "Tvimavvi"" " Say "vrigliari" - "Vigliavi"." "That's enough." "Goodnight, Giulio." "What will they remember about you, Honourable Mr Andreotti?" "I don't intend to rake up your dull career, that's not a crime." "What will they remember about you?" "A cold organizer:" "Inscrutable, incapable of doubts or thrills." "Incapable of pity." "What will they remember about you?" "Postscript:" "The Pope did ever so little, perhaps he'll feel guilty." "Your government's immobility damages your race for the presidency." "The government's about to fall, but it shouldn't happen like this." "Better to bluff it than snuff it." "Politically, you're naive." "Naivety and intelligence always go together." " Are you calling me a bastard?" " Of course not." "You're angry because I didn't defend you from Cossiga's accusations." "That's water under the bridge." "I couldn't oppose Cossiga, we've been arguing for months." "I'm just trying to see things from a political viewpoint." "You always want to talk political strategies." "I, on the other hand, have a dreadful migraine today." "Yes, but you always have a migraine." "Remind Fiorenzo about Tedax." "Let's make sure it stays in the pharmaceutical codex." "Amintore..." "Good morning ma'am." "I'm well, thank you." "How about you?" "Go ahead." "Actually it's not true." "I'm not very good at making recommendations." "I hate lies and I don't tell them." "I've never believed one can divide humanity into two groups:" "Angels and demons." "We're all average sinners." "If one wants to keep a secret, one mustn't even confide in oneself." "One must never leave traces." "Good evening." "Come in." "Take a seat please, ma'am." "I used to come to this apartment before you were here." " It was a furrier's." " I know." "Craxi used to say:" ""Andreotti is an old fox, he'll end up in a furrier's one day."" "He was right, I really have." "But alive." "Does my company bore you that much?" " Not at all." " Really?" "Really." "You aren't at all curious about me." "It's very unusual." "I'm only curious about myself." "My job is to inquire into myself." "Does this noble work pay well?" "Yes, my husband pays for this noble work very generously." "What do you expect from me, ma'am?" "Sorry, I wanted to thank you." "It's a very difficult time for me." "I'm so vulnerable." "You mustn't be." "Vulnerability always commands exorbitant prices." "So, what must I do?" "Your young lover is transient because youth is transient." "But your husband isn't." "He's a cure for your loneliness and for your vulnerability." "Believe me, I'm familiar with loneliness and it's not very nice." "In my position" "I must have met about 300,000 people." "Do you think this oceanic crowd has made me feel any less lonely?" "Thank you." "Go!" "Go!" "Giulio, the Mafia murdered Salvo Lima." "VINCENZO SCOTTI INTERIOR MINISTER alias "TARZAN"" "Teresa, how are you?" "That's good news." "Yes, Teresa." "Livia and I will visit you on Sunday." "All right." "Goodbye." "Teresa is my cousin." "She's the same age as me and she's always sick, in hospital." "Once she was home for three months:" "A remarkable event." "To tell you the truth, as much as I've tried, and I've tried a lot over the years of militancy, friendship..." "I must say that I'll never understand you." "I don't know you." "When they abducted Moro I had spasms of vomiting." "An uncontrollable reaction." "Uncontrollable reactions embarrass us." "But deep down they reassure us, because they tell us that we're alive and human." "We have to go to Palermo for the funeral." "If they killed Lima to strike at me, a candidate in pectore for the presidency of the Republic, it means there's another candidate using these methods." "I speak to the State, I speak to the investigators, and I call on you to identify and exemplarily punish the killers and the mandators alike, so that this time they cannot be shielded by a disheartening vagueness," "especially the mandators." "Public opinion calls for justice to prevail." "There should be absolutely no doubt about the willingness to investigate and expose the true facts." "Lord, keep a close watch on me because I am becoming despicable in the eyes of those who contemplate me." "Lord, keep a close watch on me because I am becoming despicable in the eyes of those who contemplate me." "Lima was suspected of Mafia involvement for years." "He generated too much gossip." "So do many other members of your faction." "It's not a good sign." " I generate gossip too." " But you're Andreotti, they aren't." "That, at least, is not my fault." "Why do you surround yourself with such people?" "Wars are fought with the troops available." "The best people can choose the best troops." "Trees need manure in order to grow." "Your irony is atrocious." "Irony is the best cure against death." "Cures against death are always atrocious." "You're suffering for Lima?" "I'm suffering for Moro." "Everything always washed over me without leaving a trace, but not Moro." "I just can't get him out of my mind." "It's like a second migraine, but even more agonizing." "Why didn't they take me?" "I'm strong." "Moro was a weak man." "Don't say that." "It's just pointless remorse." "If the Red Brigades had wanted secrets, they could have talked to me for a year." "Moro had no idea that certain things even existed." "You know, Mario, once they called me at home." "No one has my private number." "They said they'd kill me on December 26th." "I replied: "Thanks, now I'll spend Holy Christmas in peace."" "I'm still here." "They were put off by a witty remark." "The Red Brigades, far too serious." "Andreotti's 7th government shouldn't have ended this way." "It doesn't matter." "Next time, God willing, I'll get a little higher" "The Quirinal." "The presidency of the Republic would be your crowning achievement." "How will you spend Sunday?" "The same way I spend all the others, with my old constituents." " Thank you, Premier." " You're welcome, ma'am." "Do they grow that big in Ferentino?" "In Sora?" "Thank you, Vittorio, put them down there." "This is for you." "Here's a nice sailboat and a lovely toy kitchen." " This is for you." " Many thanks, Premier." " Premier, I'd..." " What's this?" "Household expenses..." "Goodness..." " Any news on that job, Premier?" " You'll have to be patient." "Well chaps, we need to face up to the situation." "Now that Cossiga had nominated The Lad as life senator, what will happen to his 330,000 votes?" "Bravo, that's exactly why" "I think I should be appointed faction co-ordinator." "Behave yourselves." "I don't get it, what the hell do you want to co-ordinate?" "Each one of us always took care of our own regions." "Behave yourselves!" "What do you want?" "Join in this political debate but don't just say "behave yourselves"." "We need a concept." "Where are you going?" "To the other Christian Democrat faction, they're nicer." "Niceness is detrimental in politics." "That's why I'm going, because I'm not nice at all." "Wait a moment." "Pomicino, The Shark's leaving." "And he's taking all those 330,000 votes with him." "The Shark!" "The little fish..." "who'll drown." "Hi." "How are you, my dearest Ambassador?" "My dear lady!" "I haven't slept a wink since I missed your last art exhibition." "You didn't miss a thing, I'm just a dabbler." "Hooray for dabbling!" "I'm a surgeon and Chancellor of the Exchequer..." "Professionalism is killing us." "I beg you, please dance." "Would you like a "Transgression", ma'am?" " What do you mean?" " It's a cocktail, ma'am." "No, thank you." "Premier, would you care for a Cuban?" "Thank you, but I don't succumb to lesser vices." "Have you ever danced, Premier?" "My whole life, ma'am." "Here's the "fat girl" I promised you." "You can't imagine what this mozzarella's like." " It reminds me of Sbardella." " Reminds you?" "It is Sbardella." "That traitor!" "How far will he get without Andreotti?" "He won't get anywhere without Andreotti." "We're not members of a faction, we're in a theocratic empire where one person rules:" "Andreotti." "Eat Sbardella, Franco." "It'll calm you down." "Listen Andreotti, the aim of this dinner is obvious." "We think you should be elected President of the Republic." "And we want to do everything possible to make that happen." "What do you think?" "I know I'm of average height, but..." "I don't see any giants around." "I know my Giulio too well." "He just said yes." "Thank you." "This watch isn't to commemorate the moment, it's for the future." "Its hands always point to the future." "And you are the future." "I got it from Haussmann's." "It's the brand that counts, not the store." "You make it tough to care about you." "I never asked you to care about me." "I know, but I care about you all the same." "And in all these years, you've never shown me any affection." "Never." "I always defended you politically." "Even when you made incongruous remarks." "Yes, but life isn't only politics." "I'm not intelligent like you..." "I did some "incongruous" things, but I always covered the body part directly below the coccyx for you." "Always." "Always, don't forget that." "You just made another incongruous remark." "There's nothing else but politics." "Talk to Fiorenzo." "I'll be unhappy if Tedax is taken off the pharmaceutical codex." "What is it?" "Why did you get up?" "I wanted to wish you luck." "Yes." "If you get elected, will we live in the Quirinal or here?" "Here." "The Quirinal would drive you mad." "It's like being a prisoner with all those cuirassiers, speakers and pastry-bearers." "Yes Enea, five o'clock will be fine." "Thanks." "Bastard." "The order of business is:" "Election of the President of the Republic." "Thieves!" "Honourable members!" "Honourable Parisi!" "You're an old parliamentarian, show some respect." " I'll press charges!" " Shame on you!" "Show some decency!" "Buffoons, buffoons!" "We have to nominate the President of the Republic, we must remain united so one of our men wins." "My dear chaps, come to an agreement." "Talk frankly." "If dear Arnaldo is a candidate, I'm out of the race." "If dear Giulio is a candidate, I'm out of the race." "I see." " How did it go?" " They both want to run." "I'd like to finish speaking, Mr President." "You've already had two applauses, let someone else talk." "I just want to finish a line of reasoning." "That's enough reasoning, let's vote." "Honourable member, reasoning is optional for you." "Four ballots and we still don't have a real candidate." "Agnelli asked me if this would go on all week." "Is he worried about the weekend?" "Franco, I don't discuss politics with you, just sports." "I discuss politics with Giulio." "The immobility of Andreotti's government has multiplied its enemies" "If we vote for him, they'll assault us." "You haven't understood a thing." "You hammer us for a year and then ask us to vote the big boss into the Quirinal." "Andreotti in the Quirinal and Forlani as head of the D.C. Party." "If you want Forlani in the Quirinal, don't complain afterwards." "If Forlani gets the presidency, De Mita becomes party leader." "And De Mita will hinder Craxi from becoming premier." "That's why we have to get Andreotti into the Quirinal, and leave Forlani as party leader and Martinazzoli as vice premier." "See how simple, clear and scientific it is?" "See all these people?" "See the opposition?" "Andreotti supporters are everywhere, above suspicion." "Not only in the Christian Democrats:" "I'm cross-party." "The killer was about to be revealed, I never want to know." "The candidates will fall, one by one." "Then we'll move in, rested and redemptive." "What do the illegal bookmakers say?" "Spadolini is at one and a half, Andreotti four, Craxi eight, lotti ten, Forlani twelve," "De Mita fifteen and Scalfaro twenty." " Cossiga?" " Cossiga's not on the list." "Did they forget him?" "Will you vote for him?" "No, I can't stand him." " What does that mean?" " I could never stand him." "Not voting for him is dangerous for you and us too." "I'm asking you as a favour, do it for me." "Just this once." " All right." " Dry your hands, hurry." "Let us observe a one-minute silence in memory of Giovanni Falcone, magistrate." "Here are the ballot results:" "Present voters 1002, no abstentions." "Absolute majority of the assembly: 508." "Voting went as follows..." " Watch Andreotti closely." " Scalfaro 672 votes..." " He's waited for this all his life." " Miglio 75, Cossiga 63..." "Volponi 50, Valiani 36, Forlani and Spadolini 7," "Andreotti and Vassalli 6," "Conso and lotti 4," "Bossi and Scalfari 3, Guido Quaranta 2." "Invalid ballots: 15, blank ballots: 38, void ballots: 11." "I declare the elected President of the Republic to be the Honourable Oscar Luigi Scalfaro." "Keep watching him." "Watch and learn how to behave." "I never kissed my mother." "Never!" "Then again, Judas kissed a lot, and he wasn't sentimental." "She wasn't at all impressed that I was an MP or minister." "I cried when she died." "During my life, I cried twice more:" "When De Gasperi died and the first time I was nominated vice-minister." "Once, I made a vow, it was when the Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Moro." "I vowed to give up ice cream if he was released." "I have a weakness for ice cream." "If there were direct elections in Italy for President of the Republic" "I would've won." "I forgive you, but you've got to get down on your knees." "If you have the courage to change... but they won't change." "To change, change..." "They don't want to change, they won't change..." "Change and stop causing death and destruction." "Go back to being Christians." "We pray for this in the name of Jesus who said it on the cross:" "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." "Politicians, businessmen:" "I'm worried about this recent wave of suicides." "Some can't stand imprisonment, others the accusations of corruption or bribery... and they kill themselves..." "but are they suicides, Premier?" "By the way," "Craxi says you're the puppeteer behind Bribesville." "What nonsense!" "Your colleagues are falling prey to corruption and extortion." "Craxi, Forlani, De Mita, Martelli, La Malfa." "But not you." "This appallingly big scandal hasn't touched you." "I feel compassion and a sense of sadness for them." "But, I don't think they're finished." "I don't believe they're personally responsible or that they should disappear from the political scene." "I don't want to talk about Bribesville but about a piece I'd like to write on an almost philosophical theme." "This theme is chance." "I don't believe in chance, I believe in the will of God." "But you should believe in chance!" "Well, Premier, is it by chance that the families of assassination victims hate you?" "Dalla Chiesa's son hates you." "He says that you instigated his father's murder." "Aldo Moro's wife hates you and holds you responsible for her husband's death." "Does banker Roberto Calvi's wife hate you by chance?" "She said you threatened then ordered Calvi's murder." "She says the Vatican Bank didn't kill him, but two people:" "Andreotti and Cosentino, who's also dead now." "And I wonder, is it by chance that you were Interior Minister when the bandit Pisciotta was killed with a poisoned coffee?" "Maybe Pisciotta could have revealed the instigators of Giuliano's murder." "Was banker Michele Sindona killed in the same way by chance?" "He too could have made some uncomfortable disclosures in prison." "Is it by chance that everyone says you repeatedly protected Sindona?" "Is it by chance that Evangelisti, your deputy, met Sindona when he was on the run, at a toy shop in New York?" "Is it by chance that the Magistrate Viola says:" "If you hadn't protected Sindona, the Ambrosoli crime wouldn't have happened?" "Furthermore, you jot down everything scrupulously in your diary, so is it by chance that you forgot to write about the Ambrosoli crime?" "Is it by chance that from '76-'79, when you were Premier, all the secret service chiefs were members of the P2 Masonic lodge?" "Is it by chance that in your frequent meetings with P2 head, Licio Gelli, you talked exclusively about South American desaparecidos?" "That's what you said:" "Just friendly chit-chat." "Finally, is it by chance that you've been dragged into nearly every scandal that's afflicted this country?" "And I'm omitting to mention all the suspects that allege your Mafia links" "Basically, as Montanelli said:" "It's one or the other." "You're either the most cunning criminal in the country because you never got caught or you're the most persecuted man in the history of Italy." "So I'm asking:" "Are all these coincidences the fruit of chance or the will of God?" "Is it by chance that the influential newspaper you founded was once saved by the Premier?" "That Premier was me." "Your newspaper almost fell into the hands of Silvio Berlusconi, an employer you wouldn't have liked." "I stopped it from happening." "Also thanks to the mediation of the much-reviled Ciarrapico." "I allowed you to regain your independence and freedom." "Independence and freedom which allows you to ask me impudent, specious questions." "It's thanks to me that you can be so arrogant, presumptuous and distrustful towards me." "That's not the case..." "The situation was a bit more complicated." "See?" "You're quite perspicacious, you've worked it out for yourself." "The situation was a bit more complicated." "But that doesn't just apply to your story, it applies to mine too." "TOTO' RIINA." "MAFIA BOSS OF BOSSES alias "THE BEAST"" "Now I'll tell you everything, but hold on to your seats because it's all linked, everything is connected." "I repeat:" "Hold on to your seats." "GIANCARLO CASELLI ATTORNEY GENERAL OF PALERMO" "Pippo Calo, Toto Riina and Francesco Madonia made use of Licio Gelli for their investments." "Some of this money was invested in the Vatican Bank where Gelli acted as banker for the group." "Sindona was banker for the previous Mafia bosses:" "Stefano Bontate and Salvatore Inzerillo..." "Yes, I met Licio Gelli and Michele Sindona." "Well-mannered, respectful people." "Licio Gelli had a mattress shop near the Christian Democrat headquarters." "Pippo Calo killed several relatives of mine, but at one time we were great friends." "Roberto Calvi appropriated a substantial sum belonging to Gelli and Calo." "Calvi's suicide was staged." "Calvi was strangled by Francesco Di Carlo, on Pippo Calo's orders." "Pippo Calo was a very important man in Cosa Nostra, he's capable of using his brain, he was Cosa Nostra's man in Rome." "He had links with Bontate, then with Riina, with the Camorra, with the Vatican, with the Secret Services, with the P2 and the Magliana Gang." " If Calo talked..." " If Calo talked... he'd die after saying good morning." "On the subject of Moro, Pippo Calo told Bontate:" ""Don't you get it?" "His fellow party members don't want him freed."" "In 1983, Badalamenti told me there were secrets about Moro's kidnapping." "Secrets that troubled the Honourable Mr. Andreotti." "Andreotti was worried they could leak out." "Only two people knew about these secrets:" "General Dalla Chiesa and Mino Pecorelli, the journalist." "Badalamenti told me that although we'd killed Pecorelli, it was a political killing commissioned by the Salvo cousins as a favour to Andreotti." "When Dalla Chiesa was murdered, Badalamenti said:" ""They sent him to Palermo to get rid of him." "He hadn't done anything in Sicily to justify all that hate towards him."" "The Pecorelli and Dalla Chiesa cases are linked, gentlemen." "The government wouldn't give Dalla Chiesa special anti-Mafia powers." "When Dalla Chiesa was killed, they blamed the Mafia." "Some time after, I had a meeting with Lima and Nino Salvo." "If Dalla Chiesa was already powerless on all levels, why kill him?" "For some politicians, he'd have been more dangerous in retirement." "We're the ones who'll be fucked for a long time to come." "Badalamenti told me he'd met up with Andreotti in Rome, to thank him for his concern over a trial regarding Filippo Rimi, Badalamenti's brother-in-law." "Badalamenti told me that Andreotti congratulated him, saying:" ""Men like you..."" "Men like you... are needed on every street in Italy." "BADALAMENTI'S ATTORNEY" "It was said by Ciro Varga of the Vallelunga family," "Cataldo Terminio of the San Cataldo family, and Salvatore Ferrero of the Caltanisetta family that..." "Giulio, I need to talk to you in private." "...the Honourable Mr Lima was Andreotti's contact for everything that concerned Cosa Nostra, especially the trials." "Sebastiano Nardo told me that Andreotti was "pricked", he was initiated, a "man of honour"." "Bontate told me that Andreotti went to Palermo to meet him," "Lima, the Salvo cousins and the Honourable Mr Nicoletti." "It was between spring and summer of '79." "The meeting took place on a hunting reserve and Bontate complained to Andreotti about the Honourable Mr Mattarella's behaviour, who wasn't lending a helping hand to the Mafia anymore." "There was a second meeting some months after Mattarella's death." "We're in charge of Sicily 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 Sicilian votes, but those from Reggio Calabria and all Southern Italy too." "You'll only have the North, where they all vote Communist." "Take our votes." "And don't get any ideas about special measures or laws or there'll 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 political faction which had made use of Cosa Nostra's votes then reneged on its commitments during the Big Mafia Trial." "I can't be more precise about when the meeting took place because it's hard to put a date on my memories." "You know that what you're telling us is almost unbelievable?" "Yes." "But it was also unbelievable that Riina was captured after years on the run, but it happened." "Thanks to me." "Come with me." "Livia, the Palermo Judges sent notification that I'm under investigation for Mafia connections." "They'll ask for authorization to proceed against me." "And this time they'll get it." "I know who you are." "You can't spend your life with a man and not know who he is." "I know who you are." "And we'll defend ourselves." "I don't know if Riina and Andreotti met or not." "But if they did, I'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" "It'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" "The best years of our lives" "Hold me tight, no night lasts forever..." "Livia, your lively eyes dazzled me one afternoon in the Verano cemetery." "I chose that odd place to ask you to marry me." "Remember?" "Yes, I know, you remember." "Your lively, innocent, enchanted eyes didn't know, don't know and will never know." "They have no idea of the deeds that power must commit to ensure the well-being and development of the country." "For too long that power was me." "The monstrous, unavowable contradiction:" "Perpetrating evil to guarantee good." "The monstrous contradiction that made me a cynical man that even you couldn't decipher." "Your lively, innocent eyes don't know the responsibility." "The direct and indirect responsibility for all the carnage in Italy from 1969 to 1984 that left precisely 236 dead and 817 injured." "To all the families of the victims I say that I confess." "I confess that it was my fault, my most grievous fault." "I'll say it, even if it's pointless." "Havoc used to destabilize the country, to provoke terror to isolate the extremist parties and strengthen the centre ones like the Christian Democrats... has been described as "tension strategy"." "It would be more correct to say:" ""Survival strategy"." "Roberto, Michele, Giorgio, Carlo Alberto," "Giovanni, Mino, dear Aldo, by vocation or necessity, all confirmed lovers of the truth." "All bombs ready to explode that were defused into silence." "All of them thinking truth is the right thing, but actually it's the end of the world." "We can't allow the end of the world in the name of what's right." "We have a task, a divine task." "We must love God greatly to understand how necessary evil 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 long did you walk?" " All night." " My legs are really hurting." " Take more care:" "Stress, your age..." " Tedax would make me happy." " It was taken off the codex." "Stop the nervous walking, try doing some sports." "All my sporty friends are dead." "Chance." "I don't believe in chance." "I believe in the will of God." " I'm sorry." " No, don't say anything." "It's for the best, I'll retire to the country and pick chicory." " Chicory's good." " Yes, it's politics that's bad." "And to tell the truth, I'm tired of it." "It's for the best." "Andreotti says he has too many legal expenses and now that he's not in the government..." "Poor Andreotti, he was always on his own." "Now even more so." " What's in there?" " Love letters." "You wouldn't think it, but women liked Andreotti." "They wrote him lots of letters." "But I never let him see them." "I don't want trouble." "Have you read them, Miss Enea?" "I know full well, Senator, that there are certain things in life one mustn't see." "PRIVATE ARCHIVES OF GIULIO ANDREOTTI" "I can say with a sense of responsibility that I'd prefer the Mafia to have eliminated me in the same way they did Dalla Chiesa than to end up here, not knowing how to defend myself against lies." "I never met the Salvo cousins in my life." "I never associated with them and Lima never hinted at matters pertaining to the Mafia." "I do not know Bontate, I do not know Badalamenti." "I have never had secret meetings with them." "My movements are constantly controlled by the police." "I am under special surveillance, 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 block further investigations by the judiciary, what will be left of this country's institutions?" "I understand the risk but... we cannot allow the judiciary to govern." "That's all for now." "Would you like to add anything else, Senator Andreotti?" "Go ahead." "For many years I have been Italy's international representative." "A country led by someone who reports to the Mafia does not have much credibility in the world arena." "I'm not the only one who'll be discredited by this." "You've lost more weight." "And my hand shakes when I write." "Because you don't sleep anymore." "Yes, I don't sleep anymore." "Your friends from the faction don't call anymore." "Pray for them, Livia." "They were destroyed too." "By whom?" "By life and by accusations of bribery." "Is it far?" "26 times for 26 different accusals," "I was brought before the investigating committee." "They made me talk for days on end." "But each time, the case was dismissed." "Dismissed, dismissed, dismissed..." "We're here to talk about presumed governmental responsibility in the Piazza Fontana massacre." "I don't remember..." "I was only informed of the facts." "I couldn't know about that." "You remember meeting Gelli?" "I don't remember, I don't remember, I don't remember." "De Gasperi said of you:" ""He's so capable at everything, he could become capable of anything."" "Leave De Gasperi out of this." "I met Gelli briefly in Frosinone, he was a manager of the Permaflex mattress company." "Years later I saw him in Argentina and thought:" ""He looks like the manager of Permaflex."" "Carlo Bordoni, Sindona's son-in-law, and Mrs Calvi accuse you of being the master of the P2 lodge, not Gelli." "I'd never have settled for being master of just one lodge." "Mrs Calvi made that accusation years ago," "I wrote to her expressing my sympathy for her grief and imploring her not to foster such scandals." "The Christian Democrats did all they could to save Moro." "It was one of the most agonizing things I've ever experienced." "It's one thing to fight political battles, but to say that we didn't do everything possible to save Moro..." "That is truly..." "I've made many mistakes in my life 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 Holiness, but you don't know the Vatican."" "He was right." "Giulio Andreotti is here with us today." "The committee has given the go-ahead." "There will be a trial." "REBIBBIA PRISON." "MAXIMUM SECURITY COURTROOM." "Here he is!" "He's coming." "Mr Riina, have you ever met Giulio Andreotti?" "Have you ever kissed him?" "Have you ever met Senator Andreotti?" "Today's a beautiful day." " Do you feel safe in prison?" " We're safe anywhere." " We who?" " What do you expect from the court?" "Only good things." " Do you know the turncoat Mutolo?" " No." " And Senator Andreotti?" " That's enough, back off." "May I have some fizzy water, please?" "Pecorelli said he had Moro's complete memoirs and that they contained revelations about Andreotti." "Once, around two in the morning," "General Dalla 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 false and slanderous." "I never met Ignazio Salvo or Riina." "If Di Maggio recognises Salvo's house, it's his business." "Come on Senator, tell the truth." "Who induced you to accuse me?" "We've never met." "Sure we have." "I'm talking about stuff that I saw myself." "They got Riina because of this." "My conscience is at peace." "Do the same for yours." "My client will not be subjected to such tones." "That will be all, Di Maggio." " Let's continue." " No." "First I'd like my statement to be minuted." "Because even though I recognise that all men are equal," "I feel deeply humiliated by a confrontation with a Mafioso, even if he's a turncoat." "How are you, Premier?" "So so..." "And you?" "Basically, I'm bored." "Basically, so am I." "Goodbye, Premier." "Goodbye." "Premier... don't slouch." "Italian cuisine is delicious, especially the Roman dishes." " Know how this sauce got its name?" " Yes, I know." "Giulio, you're good at listening, making wisecracks, you have perseverance, the ability to concentrate and to hold out." "But that's it." "They depict you as cunning, cultured, very intelligent." "I say that's not the case." "What's made you so critical suddenly?" "Nothing, just the need to establish the truth occasionally." "A need you've never had." "You live longer without needs." "Another wisecrack." "My blood will spill upon you." "People know you and I didn't get rich from politics, 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 actually saved their lives." "They forget the Soviet threat was real and close by." "We let Aldo Moro die." "And if I have grey hair and liver spots on my skin, it's because while we let Moro die," "I was aware of it." "What about you, Giulio?" "Do you remember that socialist, Nenni?" "Enthusiastic, passionate." "He said: "I'm going to put the national railway back on track"." "I said: "In the madhouse, those who don't claim to be Napoleon, claim they'll put the national railway back on track."" "Nenni and I hated each other." "But we esteemed and respected each other, both of us." "It's not like that today." "Don't be disheartened by the inquiry into Pecorelli's death." "It's funny." "I'm disheartened by little things, not serious accusations." "You know what discourages me?" "The news that I've been removed as president of The Music Society." "I'll lose my lectureship at the Institute of Ciceronian Studies and perhaps even the honorary degrees." "I always thought my vanity was a great defect." " But I'm comforted by talking to you." " It's nothing to do with vanity." "I'm from the provinces, from a humble background." "Cultural rather than political legitimisation was more important." "I always preferred to be seen as a cultured man rather than a great statesman." "Francesco, I must confess something I've never dared admit to anyone." "Not even to myself." " Tell me, Giulio." " But it must remain between us." "It wouldn't be the first time." "I've always 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 wouldn't have, even if she'd known." "She was marvellous, Mary Gassman." "She took my sleep away, she took my breath away." "All I did at school was think about her." "Then I got married... and I forgot her." "I must talk to you." "From today, we will apply the philosophy of St. Bernard:" "See everything, tolerate a lot, correct one thing at a time." "Because if it's true that Christians must turn the other cheek, it's also true that Jesus Christ, very intelligently, only gave us two." "The Big Mafia Trial is about to begin." "I will defend myself with all my might." "And I have plenty of it." "To the activism of the Palermo public prosecutor's office, we can add that of the Perugia public prosecutor's office." "Whilst gathering statements from Buscetta about the existence of compromising writings by Moro that General Dalla Chiesa was supposed to have hidden and that the murdered journalist, Mino Pecorelli, was about to publish, another request has been made for my committal to trial." "This new accusation claims that I was the mandator in Mino Pecorelli's killing." "What can I say that my life has not already made clear?" "Their theorem worries me." "The prosecutors assert that a Mafioso cannot lie." "So this brotherhood's members are marked by the fact that they can kill up to 20 people in Mannoia's case, or, if they show restraint, 10 people in Di Maggio's case." "However, they can never be suspected of lying." "The fact that I took a very hard line of action with the Mafia in regards to government legislation, counts for nothing." "They said I pretended to be tough on the Mafia." "At this point, I'm starting to think they're in league." "What's your reaction to Evangelisti's statement?" "I never had a secret meeting with Dalla Chiesa." "If Franco claimed that, he must have dreamed it." "Is there a conspiracy against you?" "Look, since all the turncoats are making false statements," "I must assume that they have an unknown prompter, since a concurrence of this type would be most difficult." "Yes, because their statements all concur, yet we know there's been no contact between them." "They're held by different bodies." "Doesn't the theory of a plot against you seem implausible?" "Not at all." "Thank you everyone." "Of course... all right." "We can go." "Andreotti's trial begins." "The first hearing, in what has been called the "trial of the century", will start at 10, tomorrow morning." "As time goes by, I'm more convinced Andreotti is an extraterrestrial." "We haven't understood that he belongs to a tradition that has made the history of the Church immortal." "He carries 2,000 years of history inside him." "There's Christ's sacrifice, Pope Joan, the Inquisition, the Borgias and diplomacy." "I'm not surprised that Andreotti has been marked as mandator in the Pecorelli murder." "Probably, 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 kill everyone he found troublesome, he'd have had to take on enemies much greater than Pecorelli." "Maybe a whole cemetery wouldn't have been big enough." "Talleyrand comes to mind when you think of Andreotti." "T-A-L-L" "E-Y-R-A-N-D- full stop." "They both had the same objective, colon, power, full stop." "But the complexity of Andreotti's character comma... makes up part, comma, if one can say, comma, of his greatness full stop." "The greatness of the enigma full stop." "Hello Livia yes, I got some sleep." "I love you too." "The Court is in session." "Be seated." "We'll begin with the representatives." "Is the defendant Giulio Andreotti present?" "Please 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 1999:" "The Tribunal acquits Giulio Andreotti of Mafia association, because there are no incriminating facts." "2 MAY 2003:" "Palermo Appeals Court cannot proceed against Andreotti for the crime of Mafia association committed up until Spring 1980 because it is already statute-barred." "The rest of the sentence is confirmed." "15 OCTOBER 2004:" "The Cassation Court confirms the Appeal Court sentence." "PECORELLI TRIAL 30 APRIL 1999:" "Public Prosecutors request life imprisonment for" "Andreotti, Vitalone, Badalamenti and Calo as mandators 24 SEPTEMBER 1999:" "The Assizes Court acquits all defendants." "16 NOVEMBER 2002:" "The Appeals Court sentences Andreotti and Badalamenti to 24 years imprisonment." "30 OCTOBER 2003:" "The Cassation Court overrules the sentence." "Andreotti and Badalamenti acquitted of Pecorelli murder." "Subtitles:" "Laser S. Film s.r.I." " Rome"