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In the Name of the Father
ITALY · 1971

In the Name of the Father

Marco Bellocchio
rebellion against authority religious institution critique youth uprising power and leadership institutional resistance
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Synopsis

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.

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