1994 (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode #1.1 - full transcript
Italy is the country I love.
Here I have my roots,
my hopes, my dreams.
Leo! Leo! Leo!
Leo! He's in Piazza Venezia.
In two minutes he'll be here, come on!
WOMAN:... empty the foreign account
that had made the judges suspicious
and they still have over 20 billion
in a Swiss bank.
A huge problem for Craxi's attorneys
preparing for the trial
which will take place
on October 12th.
Over now to
Mediaset studies in Rome,
with our correspondent Laura Addonizio.
ADDONIZIO:After a three months
election campaign
the long awaited moment has arrived,
the first face to face television debate
between the main center-left candidate
Achille Occhetto
and the new man of politics
Silvio Berlusconi.
- LEO:Sir.
- Good evening.
But weren't you dead?
You wish.
- Excuse me.
- WOMAN:One, two, three, four.
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
MAN:Hey, Silvio!
Sir
- Occhetto? Is he here?
- I saw him a little while ago.
- BERLUSCONI:And?
- LEO:He's cut his hair.
- BERLUSCONI:And how are you?
- They fluffed his fringe.
Because his hairdresser votes
Forza Italia.
- Moustache?
- It popped up too.
Damn!
I was hoping for the Stalinist mustache.
- Suit?
- Fresh blue wool, red tie.
- I'm not sure about this grey one.
- It is dignfied.
- Dignified?
It gives it an authoritative air.
Sir
Do I really have to do
this debate?
It's too late to turn back now.
Let's go over it
But before...
- Don't die on me again,
- I wont!
- How are you? You still seem a bit ...
- I'm fine
It would be for our image...
"The Minister of Telecommunications
resigns due to health problems."
- Are you saying you thought of me?
- Sir, he's here.
They are waiting for you
for a rehearsal.
I'm asking her how you are,
really.
Fine, really.
Let's go make tarantella.
PELLEGRINI:Please, this way.
Where do I look?
- Oh, get that cup away!
- I am a human being, I drink.
I control the lights, remember!
Who's the boss here?
- Actually, that's me.
- Now you're working for me (laughs).
- Focus on him
- MAN:Tighten up Berlusconi.
- Perfect, isn't it?
- Perfect.
PELLEGRINI: This is fantastic.
Three rounds, per question
one and a half minutes each.
You can correct Occhetto,
but don't interrupt him.
I get it! I know this stuff
we've gone over it a hundred times.
Violante has just resigned,
Mentana will open on that.
- We do the first round on velvet.
- Great news!
Please, Sir, don't be a victim, don't be defensive
- Attack, always attack.
- Sir, they're waiting for you at make-up.
I'm already made up.
- RACHELE:OK, as you wish.
- A touch up? For the polish?
- Yes!
- Here we go.
OCCHETTO: Our program....
is not state-centered
- I talked about it ...
- GIRL:Excuse me.
- Now what?
- Where do we find another suit?
Get to wardrobe, run!
Calm down, it's only a suit.
What colour?
My friend Donatella Raffai
always suggested grey.
- Okay, let's repeat the questions.
- Grey. - Let's go over, come on.
- So, our program ...
- Gentlemen, silence! Three...
Good evening, just
four days left until the election
and we've been waiting for this debate
featuring the two opposing leaders
of the parties
I'm here.
If we zoom out, you can see them.
Arranged according to their
political leaning
- on my right is Silvio Berlusconi.
- Good evening.
On my left, Achille Occhetto,
- of the Democratic Party of the Left.
- Good evening.
- now what the hell is he wearing?
- This brown is beautiful.
- Yes, it's so drab.
- Soviet.
RACHELE:Look how he's glowing.
Photographers call it
"enchant burini" effect.
- Good, good.
- LEO:Look carefully, make a cross.
(softly) The cross
of the ballot.
Digos has entered the
Forza Italia offices
to acquire the list
of candidates and members.
Immediately Berlusconi appealed
and requested a meeting
with President Scalfaro
what will happen ...
LEO:Yes?
DELL'UTRI:Come up here.
What's he doing here?
With all the reporters out there?
MENTANA: we head a short time ago
that the President of Antimafia,
Luciano Violante, has resigned.
- LEO:I thought you weren't coming.
- DELL'UTRI:We have a problem.
Tomorrow "L'Unità" is printing
a very defamatory piece.
- Now what's he being accused of?
- This time they're accusing you!
- Me?
- They wonder why somebody tried
to kill one of the King's men
before the first
summit of Forza Italia.
What does Forza Italia
have to do with it?
The mafia could have shot you
to get at Berlusconi,
- to remind him to keep his promises.
- It's ridiculous!
I know. But when they
hit out at other people...
Who shot you?
I don't remember, I told you,
I told the police, everyone!
I'll ask you one more time.
- I don't remember anything, I swear.
- Of course, I forgot, the shock.
Notte,
if you don't help solve this,
it will leave you open to
all sorts of accusations
and there can be no doubts
about a man of government.
In two hours
they print the newspaper.
Call the police,
report the culprit,
or the job he's promised to you,
will be someone else's,
someone...without
skeletons in the closet.
Are you really telling me
that the newspapers
say it was the Mafia?
You do realise that I'll have
a job in his government?
I have the qualifications to do it.
More than you, I think.
Find that name.
MENTANA: Achille Occhetto,
you have the floor.
OCCHETTO: Yesterday
Berlusconi asked
what face I would wear
today at this meeting,
since I would be
the instigator of a plot
against Forza Italia.
Here I am, with this face.
The face of an honest person.
OCCHETTO:Berlusconi's denial
is believed
- Whose are these?
- You don't have to smoke.
OCCHETTO:... as Violante against
the mafia was not considered.
I'm afraid you want to open up
a trial of Antimafia,
instead of the mafia.
My fear is a reversal
of the country's value system ...
- You know what horrifies him
- I'm very good.
You dropped these first.
It's just a pain reliever.
"Side effects:
confusion, sleepiness,
tremors, anxiety,
abnormal dreams and thoughts. "
Without abnormal dreams and thoughts
we aren't alive.
- You never saw these.
- Take it easy, though.
If your polls are right,
we'll soon be driving the country.
You do know? There are rumors
that he'll give you a cabinet seat.
OCCHETTO: I'm not a vulture.
So they act as
serious and chivalrous opponents.
Watch it,
stands as a government force.
LEO:Calm, superior.
RACHELE:Thank goodness
that was the easy part!
Why doesn't he react?
Why doesn't he attack?
OCCHETTO: The magistrate Columbo ...
Right ... always attack.
OCCHETTO:... approved
the search of Botteghe Oscure.
You remember the headlines,
but we never went to see
the President of the Republic.
- What do you know about the article against me?
- Ah, you heard.
- I'll sue you.
- For what? They are just questions.
It's right
that the voters do it.
So your're worried about an article,
when we get it out in the open
here, in front of millions of Italians.
- What the fuck are you saying?
- So you learn to play a double game.
And what about you?
Weren't you D'Alema's man?
What are you doing with Occhetto, his enemy?
D'Alema doesn't want to win,
he wants others to lose.
I, on the other hand, am loyal to the party.
Let's see if the party
will still be loyal to you,
if they know you told me about
Enimont's bribe..
What the fuck are you saying?
I didn't say anything to you,
you're making it up.
"I'll bring down the party, if he turns on me"
Do you remember?
- It's your word against mine.
- Well no.
I recorded everything.
If ... Of course!
I didn't want to use it,
but if you force me.
- Viola?
- Yes, dad?
In the drawer of my bedside table
there is a tape recorder.
Whatever you are doing,
drop everything and bring it here, now.
If it doesn't arrive within the break,
Occhetto will talk about you.
- Let's see if there's this tape.
- Let's see.
Let's see.
We had to suffer certain things
just to start
that great work
which was Clean Hands.
Berlusconi, over to you.
The police this morning
searched our offices,
what has never happened in 50 years
of democracy in this country.
They came to us several times too!
In the meantime, he interrupts Silvio.
Berlusconi can't do that.
"Not in four days
from the elections. "Come on!
They didn't raid you
four days before
an important election
- Bravo, attack the fuck!
- Let's refrain from such initiatives.
I do not think
that we can speak of normality ...
when after my descent on the pitch
they insinuated everything
about me and my colleagues
ARIANNA:Leo.
BERLUSCONI:It's not normal
that a company is searched
hundreds of times in the last months.
It is absolutely not a normal thing.
- Where are you going?
- He's fucked us, I have to do something
Viola? Where the fuck are you? Hurry up.
LEO:Good evening Sir,
I'm Leonardo Notte.
- I think you remember me.
- How dare you call me?
I know, we've disagreed in the past,
but now we have an enemy in common,
which makes us friends, right?
- Something to use against
Occhetto in the TV debate.
He really is a man without shame.
I want Berlusconi's victory
As much as you've lost Occhetto.
If he resigns, the position
of secretary is yours.
I just came back from an election campaign
beautiful and tiring,
I don't have time for the games of
a low value errand boy
- Goodbye
- Think about it.
The debate still has an hour left
Sir
Sir, are you there?
You're wrong, you know?
I ardently want the defeat of Berlusconi.
Go and read what I said
in my meeting yesterday in Gallipoli.
I used very harsh, fierce words.
BERLUSCONI:Violante hasn't used
this power against the mafia ...
D'Alema's rally
yesterday in Gallipoli.
Find me everything he said
against Berlusconi. Fast!
- OCCHETTO:... the fight against the mafia.
- BERLUSCONI: We'll do it
- In the program is at the first point.
- Yes, in the program.
We dedicated a chapter to you,
just four lines.
- Sir?
- Yup.
- There's somebody upstairs for you
- She's my daughter.
Now you turn up? It's already started
He needed the massage first.
The babysitter was late.
Forgive me.
- How is it going?
I mean, he's a little bit stiff.
I'll do it during the break
Hello anyway.
Hi.
Wow, you're tense.
You need a massage too.
What's up? Are you worried?
Arianna. Quite right?
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
- I'll wait in the dressing room, okay?
- Yup.
- Where is it?
- Further on, to the right.
Then...
You remember now, I take it?
MENTANA: We'll take a short break.
BERLUSCONI:Allow me,
the personal attacks you make
- and the way you conduct them ...
- OCCHETTO: We're attacked just as much.
One of his newspapers said I went
on a boat with mobsters.
- I can't go boating anymore.
- I never take holidays.
Better to meditate every now and then.
MENTANA:I'm ready for the commercials.
I hope he wil have some quiet time in the future,
not having a government job.
MENTANA:Commercials...
Now let's change strategy.
Attack his economic plans.
How do I relax with this guy
who always talks about work?
But what an anxiety, sorry!
You're right, I'll leave you alone.
Didn't you two break up?
- LEO:She had left me.
- BERLUSCONI:Ah, yes?
ARIANNA:In a somewhat abrupt way.
- BERLUSCONI:Who knows what he had done
- Eh.
- Then you regretted it?
- ARIANNA:Yes.
I hurt him too much.
Who killed this romance!
You, Notte? Did you get it back?
Not even a little pride?
- I had my faults.
- BERLUSCONI:The sense of guilt.
The biggest glue in a relationship.
Didn't you know?
I'll leave you alone.
Three minutes, I recommend.
And now? Are you happy?
Very.
We have gone through so many things
that we have become invincible.
I wish my wife smiled like that when she talks about me.
LEO:Most Holy Viola!
I've never seen you so happy to see me.
Thanks, you saved me.
- What are you gonna do?
- Wait up.
BEPPE:I never understood one thing.
How did you get out?
I thought you mentioned my name.
I gave you the gun, but they didn't come for me.
LEO:Do I look like someone talking to you?
I am like Primo Greganti!
-BEPPE:To comrade G.!
-LEO:If he spoke the party would finish.
- MAN:Dear Leonardo ...
- Who is it?
MAN:You are now in the hospital,
it's not known if you're alive or dead.
- Personally I don't care.
- Alberto?
I only care about this tape.
Your daughter's been kind enough to show me your things.
What the fuck did you do?
Did you give it to Alberto?
I don't know! He came to the hospital,
you were dying!
ALBERTO:This proof
would have destroyed the left.
And instead, surprise, the proof is gone!
VIOLA:Sorry.
Sorry? You trusted that piece of shit?
You took me to dinner with him
and you told me he was my grandfather.
Now what the fuck do I do
- Leave me alone.
- (muffled voice) I'm sorry.
BERLUSCONI:Italy is the country I love.
Here I have my roots,
my hopes, my dreams.
Here I learned from my father
and from life the love for freedom.
If I have decided to take the field
it's because I daydream
a free society,
where there is no fear,
where instead of envy and hatred
there is generosity, tolerance,
respect for life.
Where you fight
with the utmost determination
the corruption,
crime,
drugs.
I promised him a job and I always keep my promises
It wasn't easy, believe me, because everything is full here.
BERLUSCONI:The sense of guilt ...
What a bad thing, huh?
BERLUSCONI:Nobody should apologize for what it is.
Is it so difficult?
Do you know how to have a clear conscience?
Just don't use it.
Never.
LEO:I don't want to die.
Well, don't die, we need you here.
By the way, nice speech.
Which speech?
BERLUSCONI:I tell you that a dream can come true,
that of a more just Italy.
I tell you we can
and we have to build together
for us and for our children
a new Italian miracle.
- Where am I?
- Do not worry,
he's lost consciousness.
You have to come with me for a checkup,
it won't take lon
- How are you?
- Try to sit up.
ARIANNA:You should go with the doctor
- What about the second half?
- It's finishing.
- Go with him, don't worry.
- Did he mention me?
- Who?
- Occhetto, did he mention me?
- What did you say?
- LEO:I have to go.
Careful.
OCCHETTO:There have been no complaints,
but say that the faction
of the anti-Forza Italia judges
has reached unsustainable levels
is exaggerated.
BEPPE: How did you get out?
I thought you mentioned my name.
I gave you the gun,
but they didn't come to me.
LEO:Do I look like I'm talking to you?
I am Primo Greganti!
BEPPE:To Comrade G.!
Now do you believe it?
My name doesn't come out,
neither here nor in the newspaper,
otherwise this gets out.
I can keep it out of the debate
but how do I block the article?
Is it the party newspaper or isn't it?
Come on, Beppe! Do I have to teach you?
OCCHETTO:Wrong and that leads to disaster.
D'Alema's speech.
Look what I found.
OCCHETTO:I speak to the voters and meanwhile I mean ...
OCCHETTO:Left leaders they are men of high moral importance.
BERLUSCONI:Occhetto introduces himself
with a reassuring face,
but I can't be very calm,
since the number two of the PDS,
the honorable D'Alema,
stated that if they win,
I will have to move abroad.
He told someone
that if he wins the PDS,
I would be imprisoned
because I have contacts with the mafia.
("WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH?"
BY R.E.M. IN THE BACKGROUND)
BERLUSCONI:I will sue you in the courts
- I'm talking about the programs.
- I'll fight back when they talk about me ...
To determine it must be the investigator,
as for any citizen.
TV, advertising, communication ...
In no time he had
an extraordinary consent.
An error Occhetto and one Berlusconi.
I don't mention mistakes,
because many would involve
- my colleagues.
- Did he really say that?
I hope that a party wins.
I don't say which one because you already know.
Despite the politiness
I understand it too.
If he understood it,
I've been clear.
- Ouch!
- This broke my cock.
We must make the revolution
without looking elsewhere.
Can I talk to you for a moment?
We have amazed the world
with what's been called
"The Italian miracle".
I want to hear the tape, everything.
I've already done it
take it for yourself.
If you block the article, you can listen to it endlessly.
I prevented Occhetto from ripping you in front of everyone
That's not enough for me.
If I have to disgrace myself
with a man like Montebello,
I want to see what's in your hand.
Be careful, Beppe,
in a minute I'll give it to Berlusconi.
I've known you for 20 years
and I know two things.
You're a piece of shit.
but not a scoundrel.
When you could have mentioned my name
to save your ass, you didn't.
Even if you registered
what I told you that evening,
I do not believe
that you will never use it against me.
Am I wrong?
Montebello did you say?
- He's in the studio, I've seen him before.
- Do you want to go talk to him?
Because I'm not going.
DELL'UTRI:There's no more time.
If you report her now, I get an Arianna out
and we can get rid of the piece
I don't know who you're covering for
but they must be really worth it.
If you didn't wake up, I would've killed myself.
(crying) Forgive me.
Forgive me! Forgive me!
Ah well, He's woken up.
Can you talk?
- DI LULLO:Can we come in? Mr Notte.
You've had a big operation and we don't want to tire you
Do you remember who shot you?
- I should go
- No, stay.
Did he have a particular accent?
Did they ask for money or attempt to rob you?
I don't know, I don't remember anything.
I get it.
When you're better, come and see me.
Commissioner Di Lullo.
ARIANNA:What's wrong?
What did Dell'Utri want?
You look worried.
Nothing.
Do you want me to go home or wait?
Stay.
MENTANA:OK, time for the commercials,
we'll stop for a moment.
Excuse me.
Now a spotlight breaks like in Marseille.
Galliani arrives and ends the game.
You know why it's not going as you want?
Because you haven't understood yet
What you are.
The conqueror or the statesman.
You're stuck in the middle.
I don't broadcast it.
The TV station is mine, I can do as I please.
- Nice move on D'Alema.
- Occhetto almost fell from the chair.
- It is true that he threw coffee on you?
- So they say.
Here, smile a little more.
So, Notte...
Conqueror or statesman?
"Make what's in you happen and you'll be safe.
or what you won't have made happen will kill you, "
A Gospel, it seems to me.
Only you know what man you want to be.
How much wisdom!
Do you know what man he wants to be?
Can I know what's going on? What's wrong with Leo?
- I am a little bit worried.
- Do you care about him?
- Of course I care.
- And also about his future?
You see, Silvio has big plans for Notte.
He even wants to make him a minister.
But he must absolutely do one thing.
What thing?
He must tell the police who shot him.
Why don't you try to convince him?
ARIANNA:I heard there's big news, Minister Notte.
Sorry, Arianna
But can you see yourself behind a desk
giving and taking orders?
Meaning?
How many ministers are there
in a government? Ten, 15?
What are you saying?
Because I think maybe you regret it.
Are you sure that's what you want?
BERLUSCONI:It's true.Mr Occhetto, it is so.
I don't think a friendship ,,.
- WOMAN:Sempione Commissariat.
- I'm looking for Commissioner Di Lullo.
Wait online.
I do not deny personal friendship.
I never did it.
I haven't done it on other occasions
and I don't do it now.
History will decide what it did
good and bad Craxi.
- OCCHETTO:Record.
- DI LULLO:Yes? Ready?
- BERLUSCONI:Let's put it on.
- DI LULLO:Hello?
OCCHETTO:I like your answer.
maybe it's the most beautiful toight.
Montebello
Do you want to know the truth?
If I really am what you say in your article.
just make a phone call
to find out where your wife works.
where your granddaughter goes to school
and say a half sentence to my friends.
"That Montebello broke my cock,"
They will take care of the rest.
They don't break down
But how do you allow it?
I don't think you want go
to the end of the Earth
just to know something naive
and as useless as the truth.
Or am I wrong?
BERLUSCONI:The old politicians
they want to change old parties.
I say and repeat once again
that Forza Italy ,,.
- I'll never say who shot me.
- Well.
- Get ready to get destroyed by the article
- What if it doesn't come out?
- You're full of resources.
- Exactly.
I am wasted in this job
LEO:He talked about you tonight
three times without mentioning it.
but I know it doesn't piss you off.
Indeed, because he shines someone has to take shade.
We are his dark side.
We,,.
If we win.
I want a room in Palazzo Chigi.
next to Silvio.
- Doing what?
- None. Officially I don't have to exist.
You're turning down a ministerial role
I don't give a shit about being a minister.
I want to choose the ministers.
MENTANA:Berlusconi.
a final word.
BERLUSCONI:Be '.
it's very simple, I ,,.
It's a program ,,.
which cannot be said
that it is miraculous.
- It's a program based ,,.
- What did Leo say to you?
Nothing, he didn't speak.
I'm sorry.
I tried to convince him.
Leonardo is a man
who has his morality
and I appreciate this very much.
He is a man who can be trusted.
BEPPE:Give one to me too, go.
I couldn't stay in there any more
- But it's your last one.
- I don't have to smoke either.
Occhetto was good.
I'm afraid that's not enough.
Montebello said he won't publish the article.
What's this? Did you threaten lawsuits?
Sort of.
You were right, you know?
There is nothing on the tape.
I'm not a scoundrel.
Bye, Beppe, May the best man win.
We'll finish the program,
with handshake between the two protagonists.
This is what we've been waiting for
Watch on Monday evening at 10 pm.
when we find out who has
really won this clash.
- MENTANA:Where will Berlusconi be?
- BERLUSCONI:I hope at home.
- MENTANA:And Occhetto?
- Me too.
- I hope it won't be in my house.
(LAUGHS)
Good evening.
Bravo, Sir.
Gentlemen, we're at the end.
We scored 0-0
it wasn't a good game.
But it's not today that counts.
In three months you've done an incredible job.
I ask your families for forgiveness
for kidnapping you for so long.
except for that of Pellegrini
who thanked me instead.
All right.
now go back to your loved ones.
hold on to them and if anyone
don't vote for me on 27th and 28th.
lock them in the cellar.
See you Monday evening with me.
- Thanks again.
- (together) Thank you.
Thanks to you.
- Let's go home?
- No.
Are you still busy?
No.
So?
I don't want to feel guilty forever
What are you saying?
You don't see that we're together
just to punish each other?
I don't understand, are you leaving me?
I know you gave up what you wanted for me.
You love me, you can't leave me.
I saved you.
Enough, Ariadne.
GIRL:I know, it's difficult.
I liked the other choreography more.
- GIRL 2:I don't mind.
- GIRL 3:Not even me.
I was good, huh?.
Very good.
- Can I have a cigarette?
- Sure.
Thanks.
What a beautiful car!
Aren't you going to give me a lift?
- How old are you?
- 18.
- Really?
- Does it matter?
("THE DAY I TRIED TO LIVE"
SOUNDGARDEN IN THE BACKGROUND)
Here I have my roots,
my hopes, my dreams.
Leo! Leo! Leo!
Leo! He's in Piazza Venezia.
In two minutes he'll be here, come on!
WOMAN:... empty the foreign account
that had made the judges suspicious
and they still have over 20 billion
in a Swiss bank.
A huge problem for Craxi's attorneys
preparing for the trial
which will take place
on October 12th.
Over now to
Mediaset studies in Rome,
with our correspondent Laura Addonizio.
ADDONIZIO:After a three months
election campaign
the long awaited moment has arrived,
the first face to face television debate
between the main center-left candidate
Achille Occhetto
and the new man of politics
Silvio Berlusconi.
- LEO:Sir.
- Good evening.
But weren't you dead?
You wish.
- Excuse me.
- WOMAN:One, two, three, four.
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
MAN:Hey, Silvio!
Sir
- Occhetto? Is he here?
- I saw him a little while ago.
- BERLUSCONI:And?
- LEO:He's cut his hair.
- BERLUSCONI:And how are you?
- They fluffed his fringe.
Because his hairdresser votes
Forza Italia.
- Moustache?
- It popped up too.
Damn!
I was hoping for the Stalinist mustache.
- Suit?
- Fresh blue wool, red tie.
- I'm not sure about this grey one.
- It is dignfied.
- Dignified?
It gives it an authoritative air.
Sir
Do I really have to do
this debate?
It's too late to turn back now.
Let's go over it
But before...
- Don't die on me again,
- I wont!
- How are you? You still seem a bit ...
- I'm fine
It would be for our image...
"The Minister of Telecommunications
resigns due to health problems."
- Are you saying you thought of me?
- Sir, he's here.
They are waiting for you
for a rehearsal.
I'm asking her how you are,
really.
Fine, really.
Let's go make tarantella.
PELLEGRINI:Please, this way.
Where do I look?
- Oh, get that cup away!
- I am a human being, I drink.
I control the lights, remember!
Who's the boss here?
- Actually, that's me.
- Now you're working for me (laughs).
- Focus on him
- MAN:Tighten up Berlusconi.
- Perfect, isn't it?
- Perfect.
PELLEGRINI: This is fantastic.
Three rounds, per question
one and a half minutes each.
You can correct Occhetto,
but don't interrupt him.
I get it! I know this stuff
we've gone over it a hundred times.
Violante has just resigned,
Mentana will open on that.
- We do the first round on velvet.
- Great news!
Please, Sir, don't be a victim, don't be defensive
- Attack, always attack.
- Sir, they're waiting for you at make-up.
I'm already made up.
- RACHELE:OK, as you wish.
- A touch up? For the polish?
- Yes!
- Here we go.
OCCHETTO: Our program....
is not state-centered
- I talked about it ...
- GIRL:Excuse me.
- Now what?
- Where do we find another suit?
Get to wardrobe, run!
Calm down, it's only a suit.
What colour?
My friend Donatella Raffai
always suggested grey.
- Okay, let's repeat the questions.
- Grey. - Let's go over, come on.
- So, our program ...
- Gentlemen, silence! Three...
Good evening, just
four days left until the election
and we've been waiting for this debate
featuring the two opposing leaders
of the parties
I'm here.
If we zoom out, you can see them.
Arranged according to their
political leaning
- on my right is Silvio Berlusconi.
- Good evening.
On my left, Achille Occhetto,
- of the Democratic Party of the Left.
- Good evening.
- now what the hell is he wearing?
- This brown is beautiful.
- Yes, it's so drab.
- Soviet.
RACHELE:Look how he's glowing.
Photographers call it
"enchant burini" effect.
- Good, good.
- LEO:Look carefully, make a cross.
(softly) The cross
of the ballot.
Digos has entered the
Forza Italia offices
to acquire the list
of candidates and members.
Immediately Berlusconi appealed
and requested a meeting
with President Scalfaro
what will happen ...
LEO:Yes?
DELL'UTRI:Come up here.
What's he doing here?
With all the reporters out there?
MENTANA: we head a short time ago
that the President of Antimafia,
Luciano Violante, has resigned.
- LEO:I thought you weren't coming.
- DELL'UTRI:We have a problem.
Tomorrow "L'Unità" is printing
a very defamatory piece.
- Now what's he being accused of?
- This time they're accusing you!
- Me?
- They wonder why somebody tried
to kill one of the King's men
before the first
summit of Forza Italia.
What does Forza Italia
have to do with it?
The mafia could have shot you
to get at Berlusconi,
- to remind him to keep his promises.
- It's ridiculous!
I know. But when they
hit out at other people...
Who shot you?
I don't remember, I told you,
I told the police, everyone!
I'll ask you one more time.
- I don't remember anything, I swear.
- Of course, I forgot, the shock.
Notte,
if you don't help solve this,
it will leave you open to
all sorts of accusations
and there can be no doubts
about a man of government.
In two hours
they print the newspaper.
Call the police,
report the culprit,
or the job he's promised to you,
will be someone else's,
someone...without
skeletons in the closet.
Are you really telling me
that the newspapers
say it was the Mafia?
You do realise that I'll have
a job in his government?
I have the qualifications to do it.
More than you, I think.
Find that name.
MENTANA: Achille Occhetto,
you have the floor.
OCCHETTO: Yesterday
Berlusconi asked
what face I would wear
today at this meeting,
since I would be
the instigator of a plot
against Forza Italia.
Here I am, with this face.
The face of an honest person.
OCCHETTO:Berlusconi's denial
is believed
- Whose are these?
- You don't have to smoke.
OCCHETTO:... as Violante against
the mafia was not considered.
I'm afraid you want to open up
a trial of Antimafia,
instead of the mafia.
My fear is a reversal
of the country's value system ...
- You know what horrifies him
- I'm very good.
You dropped these first.
It's just a pain reliever.
"Side effects:
confusion, sleepiness,
tremors, anxiety,
abnormal dreams and thoughts. "
Without abnormal dreams and thoughts
we aren't alive.
- You never saw these.
- Take it easy, though.
If your polls are right,
we'll soon be driving the country.
You do know? There are rumors
that he'll give you a cabinet seat.
OCCHETTO: I'm not a vulture.
So they act as
serious and chivalrous opponents.
Watch it,
stands as a government force.
LEO:Calm, superior.
RACHELE:Thank goodness
that was the easy part!
Why doesn't he react?
Why doesn't he attack?
OCCHETTO: The magistrate Columbo ...
Right ... always attack.
OCCHETTO:... approved
the search of Botteghe Oscure.
You remember the headlines,
but we never went to see
the President of the Republic.
- What do you know about the article against me?
- Ah, you heard.
- I'll sue you.
- For what? They are just questions.
It's right
that the voters do it.
So your're worried about an article,
when we get it out in the open
here, in front of millions of Italians.
- What the fuck are you saying?
- So you learn to play a double game.
And what about you?
Weren't you D'Alema's man?
What are you doing with Occhetto, his enemy?
D'Alema doesn't want to win,
he wants others to lose.
I, on the other hand, am loyal to the party.
Let's see if the party
will still be loyal to you,
if they know you told me about
Enimont's bribe..
What the fuck are you saying?
I didn't say anything to you,
you're making it up.
"I'll bring down the party, if he turns on me"
Do you remember?
- It's your word against mine.
- Well no.
I recorded everything.
If ... Of course!
I didn't want to use it,
but if you force me.
- Viola?
- Yes, dad?
In the drawer of my bedside table
there is a tape recorder.
Whatever you are doing,
drop everything and bring it here, now.
If it doesn't arrive within the break,
Occhetto will talk about you.
- Let's see if there's this tape.
- Let's see.
Let's see.
We had to suffer certain things
just to start
that great work
which was Clean Hands.
Berlusconi, over to you.
The police this morning
searched our offices,
what has never happened in 50 years
of democracy in this country.
They came to us several times too!
In the meantime, he interrupts Silvio.
Berlusconi can't do that.
"Not in four days
from the elections. "Come on!
They didn't raid you
four days before
an important election
- Bravo, attack the fuck!
- Let's refrain from such initiatives.
I do not think
that we can speak of normality ...
when after my descent on the pitch
they insinuated everything
about me and my colleagues
ARIANNA:Leo.
BERLUSCONI:It's not normal
that a company is searched
hundreds of times in the last months.
It is absolutely not a normal thing.
- Where are you going?
- He's fucked us, I have to do something
Viola? Where the fuck are you? Hurry up.
LEO:Good evening Sir,
I'm Leonardo Notte.
- I think you remember me.
- How dare you call me?
I know, we've disagreed in the past,
but now we have an enemy in common,
which makes us friends, right?
- Something to use against
Occhetto in the TV debate.
He really is a man without shame.
I want Berlusconi's victory
As much as you've lost Occhetto.
If he resigns, the position
of secretary is yours.
I just came back from an election campaign
beautiful and tiring,
I don't have time for the games of
a low value errand boy
- Goodbye
- Think about it.
The debate still has an hour left
Sir
Sir, are you there?
You're wrong, you know?
I ardently want the defeat of Berlusconi.
Go and read what I said
in my meeting yesterday in Gallipoli.
I used very harsh, fierce words.
BERLUSCONI:Violante hasn't used
this power against the mafia ...
D'Alema's rally
yesterday in Gallipoli.
Find me everything he said
against Berlusconi. Fast!
- OCCHETTO:... the fight against the mafia.
- BERLUSCONI: We'll do it
- In the program is at the first point.
- Yes, in the program.
We dedicated a chapter to you,
just four lines.
- Sir?
- Yup.
- There's somebody upstairs for you
- She's my daughter.
Now you turn up? It's already started
He needed the massage first.
The babysitter was late.
Forgive me.
- How is it going?
I mean, he's a little bit stiff.
I'll do it during the break
Hello anyway.
Hi.
Wow, you're tense.
You need a massage too.
What's up? Are you worried?
Arianna. Quite right?
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
- I'll wait in the dressing room, okay?
- Yup.
- Where is it?
- Further on, to the right.
Then...
You remember now, I take it?
MENTANA: We'll take a short break.
BERLUSCONI:Allow me,
the personal attacks you make
- and the way you conduct them ...
- OCCHETTO: We're attacked just as much.
One of his newspapers said I went
on a boat with mobsters.
- I can't go boating anymore.
- I never take holidays.
Better to meditate every now and then.
MENTANA:I'm ready for the commercials.
I hope he wil have some quiet time in the future,
not having a government job.
MENTANA:Commercials...
Now let's change strategy.
Attack his economic plans.
How do I relax with this guy
who always talks about work?
But what an anxiety, sorry!
You're right, I'll leave you alone.
Didn't you two break up?
- LEO:She had left me.
- BERLUSCONI:Ah, yes?
ARIANNA:In a somewhat abrupt way.
- BERLUSCONI:Who knows what he had done
- Eh.
- Then you regretted it?
- ARIANNA:Yes.
I hurt him too much.
Who killed this romance!
You, Notte? Did you get it back?
Not even a little pride?
- I had my faults.
- BERLUSCONI:The sense of guilt.
The biggest glue in a relationship.
Didn't you know?
I'll leave you alone.
Three minutes, I recommend.
And now? Are you happy?
Very.
We have gone through so many things
that we have become invincible.
I wish my wife smiled like that when she talks about me.
LEO:Most Holy Viola!
I've never seen you so happy to see me.
Thanks, you saved me.
- What are you gonna do?
- Wait up.
BEPPE:I never understood one thing.
How did you get out?
I thought you mentioned my name.
I gave you the gun, but they didn't come for me.
LEO:Do I look like someone talking to you?
I am like Primo Greganti!
-BEPPE:To comrade G.!
-LEO:If he spoke the party would finish.
- MAN:Dear Leonardo ...
- Who is it?
MAN:You are now in the hospital,
it's not known if you're alive or dead.
- Personally I don't care.
- Alberto?
I only care about this tape.
Your daughter's been kind enough to show me your things.
What the fuck did you do?
Did you give it to Alberto?
I don't know! He came to the hospital,
you were dying!
ALBERTO:This proof
would have destroyed the left.
And instead, surprise, the proof is gone!
VIOLA:Sorry.
Sorry? You trusted that piece of shit?
You took me to dinner with him
and you told me he was my grandfather.
Now what the fuck do I do
- Leave me alone.
- (muffled voice) I'm sorry.
BERLUSCONI:Italy is the country I love.
Here I have my roots,
my hopes, my dreams.
Here I learned from my father
and from life the love for freedom.
If I have decided to take the field
it's because I daydream
a free society,
where there is no fear,
where instead of envy and hatred
there is generosity, tolerance,
respect for life.
Where you fight
with the utmost determination
the corruption,
crime,
drugs.
I promised him a job and I always keep my promises
It wasn't easy, believe me, because everything is full here.
BERLUSCONI:The sense of guilt ...
What a bad thing, huh?
BERLUSCONI:Nobody should apologize for what it is.
Is it so difficult?
Do you know how to have a clear conscience?
Just don't use it.
Never.
LEO:I don't want to die.
Well, don't die, we need you here.
By the way, nice speech.
Which speech?
BERLUSCONI:I tell you that a dream can come true,
that of a more just Italy.
I tell you we can
and we have to build together
for us and for our children
a new Italian miracle.
- Where am I?
- Do not worry,
he's lost consciousness.
You have to come with me for a checkup,
it won't take lon
- How are you?
- Try to sit up.
ARIANNA:You should go with the doctor
- What about the second half?
- It's finishing.
- Go with him, don't worry.
- Did he mention me?
- Who?
- Occhetto, did he mention me?
- What did you say?
- LEO:I have to go.
Careful.
OCCHETTO:There have been no complaints,
but say that the faction
of the anti-Forza Italia judges
has reached unsustainable levels
is exaggerated.
BEPPE: How did you get out?
I thought you mentioned my name.
I gave you the gun,
but they didn't come to me.
LEO:Do I look like I'm talking to you?
I am Primo Greganti!
BEPPE:To Comrade G.!
Now do you believe it?
My name doesn't come out,
neither here nor in the newspaper,
otherwise this gets out.
I can keep it out of the debate
but how do I block the article?
Is it the party newspaper or isn't it?
Come on, Beppe! Do I have to teach you?
OCCHETTO:Wrong and that leads to disaster.
D'Alema's speech.
Look what I found.
OCCHETTO:I speak to the voters and meanwhile I mean ...
OCCHETTO:Left leaders they are men of high moral importance.
BERLUSCONI:Occhetto introduces himself
with a reassuring face,
but I can't be very calm,
since the number two of the PDS,
the honorable D'Alema,
stated that if they win,
I will have to move abroad.
He told someone
that if he wins the PDS,
I would be imprisoned
because I have contacts with the mafia.
("WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH?"
BY R.E.M. IN THE BACKGROUND)
BERLUSCONI:I will sue you in the courts
- I'm talking about the programs.
- I'll fight back when they talk about me ...
To determine it must be the investigator,
as for any citizen.
TV, advertising, communication ...
In no time he had
an extraordinary consent.
An error Occhetto and one Berlusconi.
I don't mention mistakes,
because many would involve
- my colleagues.
- Did he really say that?
I hope that a party wins.
I don't say which one because you already know.
Despite the politiness
I understand it too.
If he understood it,
I've been clear.
- Ouch!
- This broke my cock.
We must make the revolution
without looking elsewhere.
Can I talk to you for a moment?
We have amazed the world
with what's been called
"The Italian miracle".
I want to hear the tape, everything.
I've already done it
take it for yourself.
If you block the article, you can listen to it endlessly.
I prevented Occhetto from ripping you in front of everyone
That's not enough for me.
If I have to disgrace myself
with a man like Montebello,
I want to see what's in your hand.
Be careful, Beppe,
in a minute I'll give it to Berlusconi.
I've known you for 20 years
and I know two things.
You're a piece of shit.
but not a scoundrel.
When you could have mentioned my name
to save your ass, you didn't.
Even if you registered
what I told you that evening,
I do not believe
that you will never use it against me.
Am I wrong?
Montebello did you say?
- He's in the studio, I've seen him before.
- Do you want to go talk to him?
Because I'm not going.
DELL'UTRI:There's no more time.
If you report her now, I get an Arianna out
and we can get rid of the piece
I don't know who you're covering for
but they must be really worth it.
If you didn't wake up, I would've killed myself.
(crying) Forgive me.
Forgive me! Forgive me!
Ah well, He's woken up.
Can you talk?
- DI LULLO:Can we come in? Mr Notte.
You've had a big operation and we don't want to tire you
Do you remember who shot you?
- I should go
- No, stay.
Did he have a particular accent?
Did they ask for money or attempt to rob you?
I don't know, I don't remember anything.
I get it.
When you're better, come and see me.
Commissioner Di Lullo.
ARIANNA:What's wrong?
What did Dell'Utri want?
You look worried.
Nothing.
Do you want me to go home or wait?
Stay.
MENTANA:OK, time for the commercials,
we'll stop for a moment.
Excuse me.
Now a spotlight breaks like in Marseille.
Galliani arrives and ends the game.
You know why it's not going as you want?
Because you haven't understood yet
What you are.
The conqueror or the statesman.
You're stuck in the middle.
I don't broadcast it.
The TV station is mine, I can do as I please.
- Nice move on D'Alema.
- Occhetto almost fell from the chair.
- It is true that he threw coffee on you?
- So they say.
Here, smile a little more.
So, Notte...
Conqueror or statesman?
"Make what's in you happen and you'll be safe.
or what you won't have made happen will kill you, "
A Gospel, it seems to me.
Only you know what man you want to be.
How much wisdom!
Do you know what man he wants to be?
Can I know what's going on? What's wrong with Leo?
- I am a little bit worried.
- Do you care about him?
- Of course I care.
- And also about his future?
You see, Silvio has big plans for Notte.
He even wants to make him a minister.
But he must absolutely do one thing.
What thing?
He must tell the police who shot him.
Why don't you try to convince him?
ARIANNA:I heard there's big news, Minister Notte.
Sorry, Arianna
But can you see yourself behind a desk
giving and taking orders?
Meaning?
How many ministers are there
in a government? Ten, 15?
What are you saying?
Because I think maybe you regret it.
Are you sure that's what you want?
BERLUSCONI:It's true.Mr Occhetto, it is so.
I don't think a friendship ,,.
- WOMAN:Sempione Commissariat.
- I'm looking for Commissioner Di Lullo.
Wait online.
I do not deny personal friendship.
I never did it.
I haven't done it on other occasions
and I don't do it now.
History will decide what it did
good and bad Craxi.
- OCCHETTO:Record.
- DI LULLO:Yes? Ready?
- BERLUSCONI:Let's put it on.
- DI LULLO:Hello?
OCCHETTO:I like your answer.
maybe it's the most beautiful toight.
Montebello
Do you want to know the truth?
If I really am what you say in your article.
just make a phone call
to find out where your wife works.
where your granddaughter goes to school
and say a half sentence to my friends.
"That Montebello broke my cock,"
They will take care of the rest.
They don't break down
But how do you allow it?
I don't think you want go
to the end of the Earth
just to know something naive
and as useless as the truth.
Or am I wrong?
BERLUSCONI:The old politicians
they want to change old parties.
I say and repeat once again
that Forza Italy ,,.
- I'll never say who shot me.
- Well.
- Get ready to get destroyed by the article
- What if it doesn't come out?
- You're full of resources.
- Exactly.
I am wasted in this job
LEO:He talked about you tonight
three times without mentioning it.
but I know it doesn't piss you off.
Indeed, because he shines someone has to take shade.
We are his dark side.
We,,.
If we win.
I want a room in Palazzo Chigi.
next to Silvio.
- Doing what?
- None. Officially I don't have to exist.
You're turning down a ministerial role
I don't give a shit about being a minister.
I want to choose the ministers.
MENTANA:Berlusconi.
a final word.
BERLUSCONI:Be '.
it's very simple, I ,,.
It's a program ,,.
which cannot be said
that it is miraculous.
- It's a program based ,,.
- What did Leo say to you?
Nothing, he didn't speak.
I'm sorry.
I tried to convince him.
Leonardo is a man
who has his morality
and I appreciate this very much.
He is a man who can be trusted.
BEPPE:Give one to me too, go.
I couldn't stay in there any more
- But it's your last one.
- I don't have to smoke either.
Occhetto was good.
I'm afraid that's not enough.
Montebello said he won't publish the article.
What's this? Did you threaten lawsuits?
Sort of.
You were right, you know?
There is nothing on the tape.
I'm not a scoundrel.
Bye, Beppe, May the best man win.
We'll finish the program,
with handshake between the two protagonists.
This is what we've been waiting for
Watch on Monday evening at 10 pm.
when we find out who has
really won this clash.
- MENTANA:Where will Berlusconi be?
- BERLUSCONI:I hope at home.
- MENTANA:And Occhetto?
- Me too.
- I hope it won't be in my house.
(LAUGHS)
Good evening.
Bravo, Sir.
Gentlemen, we're at the end.
We scored 0-0
it wasn't a good game.
But it's not today that counts.
In three months you've done an incredible job.
I ask your families for forgiveness
for kidnapping you for so long.
except for that of Pellegrini
who thanked me instead.
All right.
now go back to your loved ones.
hold on to them and if anyone
don't vote for me on 27th and 28th.
lock them in the cellar.
See you Monday evening with me.
- Thanks again.
- (together) Thank you.
Thanks to you.
- Let's go home?
- No.
Are you still busy?
No.
So?
I don't want to feel guilty forever
What are you saying?
You don't see that we're together
just to punish each other?
I don't understand, are you leaving me?
I know you gave up what you wanted for me.
You love me, you can't leave me.
I saved you.
Enough, Ariadne.
GIRL:I know, it's difficult.
I liked the other choreography more.
- GIRL 2:I don't mind.
- GIRL 3:Not even me.
I was good, huh?.
Very good.
- Can I have a cigarette?
- Sure.
Thanks.
What a beautiful car!
Aren't you going to give me a lift?
- How old are you?
- 18.
- Really?
- Does it matter?
("THE DAY I TRIED TO LIVE"
SOUNDGARDEN IN THE BACKGROUND)