Far more a portrait than a biopic this stunning film dissects the later years of Giulio Andreotti, a key player in Italian politics from the 70s through till today (he still sits in the Italian Senate (2009)), implicating him as the central instigator behind 'The Strategy of Tension', a policy that involved the murders of hundreds of innocent people, and blaming 'the left/Red Brigades' so as to allow the growth of an authoritarian state. Sorrentino fingers Andreotti for many political assassinations including the abduction and murder of Prime Minister Aldo Moro, the death of 'God's Banker', Roberto Calvi, of leading journalist Mino Pecorelli, a murder for which a court later found Andreotti guilty, and many others, particularly those, like Mafia informers, with knowledge of Andreotti's shady dealings.