Hammamet (2020)

Directed by

Gianni Amelio

Genre

drama film

Country

Italy

Runtime

2h 06m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 411 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows the final years of Bettino Craxi, a former Italian prime minister living in exile in Tunisia to escape corruption charges. It focuses on his quiet daily life and the lingering impact of his political downfall.

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What happens

Hammamet is a 2020 Italian biographical drama co-written and directed by Gianni Amelio, based on the last years of life of Bettino Craxi (1934–2000), a controversial Italian politician who was the Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party, served as Prime Minister during the 1980s and later fled to Tunisia to avoid legal prosecution on corruption charges during the Mani Pulite scandal. Craxi is portrayed by Pierfrancesco Favino. The film was released shortly before the 20th anniversary of Craxi's death, which occurred on 19 January 2000 in the Tunisian town of Hammamet, where he had lived since 1994 to avoid serving a 27-years in jail sentence because of his corruption crimes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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