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(crying baby)

(Growl)

(roar)

(knocking) - Come on.

- He made me call. - Good morning.

- There's Doctor Momenté. - Let him in. I'll call you.

You are welcome.

- He has a little dandruff. - Thank you.

Close the door, thank you.

Sit down.

- The ministry needs you. - Yup.

It is a very delicate case that would not be understood here.

You know the contribution

of Venetian Catholicism to our cause.

Sure.

In Venice we have to face a procedure

of which the preliminary phase is underway

and where there is a risk of being brought to trial.

According to some newspapers hostile to us,

we return to talk about those forms of obscurantism in the Church

that the Pope has been trying to eradicate for some time.

It appears that a minor has suppressed a peer

convinced to kill the devil.

- The devil"? - Yup.

He would have done so at the instigation of a nun and a sacristan.

- He follows me? - Yes, yes.

Our president, Alcide De Gasperi,

does not intend to give up electoral support

that that region guarantees us.

At the moment it is strongly hostile to us

the representative of one of the largest local families.

- It once supported us. - What has changed?

She is the victim's mother.

We put it in the hands of our enemies

the only person capable of collecting electoral consensus

in a region traditionally ours.

You must be able to refute that lady's thesis,

prevent any representative of the Church from being charged

and that the Church is responsible for plagiarizing the murderer.

These are the secret interrogation reports.

Here is a letter from the Ministry that you can use in extreme cases.

- Nobody will know about his presence. - Yup.

Can go.

- A curiosity... - Tell me.

All the inspectors in this office had missions and I didn't.

- Therefore? - What has changed today?

The whole world has changed, Momenteé.

Many of his colleagues have changed

and turned their backs on the Church.

The Minister and I know how important it is

rely on authentic values

at the base of our civilization.

Be proud of it.

I haven't been visiting my father for months.

Even if he was a bad father,

I can't keep the good news from the Ministry just for me.

- Do you want me to leave you alone with him? - Thank you.

Dad, it happened.

I will have to stay away for a while.

To find out how she is, can I call her here?

- I don't know, I'm here recently. - I'll try. What's your name?

Laura. From 18 to 5 in the morning.

Your father loved you very much, didn't you?

You don't have to, otherwise your father gets angry.

- I'll punish you. - No, dad, I don't want to! - Come!

- Come! - No, dad, I don't want to!

- Come in here. - No! - Shut up! - I do not want to!

- Move! - No, dad, I don't want to, I don't want to!

- You're in retribution. - I do not want to! - Shut up!

(noise of the locked door)

- There is no place here. - Sit down.

"Venice, Tuesday 7 October 1952, at the juvenile prison,

myself Marino Malchionda, as investigating judge,

in the presence of Marshal Grechi Alberto

and Brigadier Giardina Leonardo,

interrogated the minor Mongiorgi Carlo,

guilty confess of pre-intentional murder

by Emilio Vestri Musy. "

Carlo... Tell me your whole story

and how did you find yourself doing what you did.

I have to realize your responsibilities and those of others.

Start from the beginning.

If I have to start from the beginning, then I have to start from the slingshot.

Start with that.

Paolino had a deadly one.

He needed it to prove to Liù that he was great.

Liù was the most beautiful in the country and had stings.

Paolino said he saw her naked and described it to me.

It was as if I had seen it too.

Come on hurry up! It is going away.

Go, pull!

Let's run!

Ugly jerks!

Bozo!

(sing) Liù naked!

Paolino and I knew that we would be together forever.

Knowing that I would be with him in school and after

it was enough for me to be happy.

I didn't imagine what would happen.

Why do you call the devil "Mister Devil"?

Gino, the sacristan, taught it to us.

He said bad people should be treated well.

Be careful, the bites of the Devil are terrible.

Like those of the boar, the male of the pig.

My father says the devil doesn't exist.

We know who your father is. It is strange that you send yourself to the catechism.

He hasn't set foot in church for years.

Tell him to come look here.

Now all of you come with me.

Make all the sign of the cross.

That Mr. Devil

that your father says it doesn't exist

from the canal he had come this far.

He wanted to lift the slab to get to the tabernacle.

That over there. Do you see it?

He wanted to devour all the hosts of the Lord.

The parish priest had to knock the whole stoup over him

to send it underground

and close this plate.

- Who is the conversa Dolores? - Our cousin.

He was in the convent and on Friday he came to us to say the rosary.

- A nun"? - A species.

What did he tell you about the lady's son,

the boy you killed?

That he had been in a mental hospital because he had killed his sister out of jealousy.

- Such as? - In bites.

- Excuse me, do you know where we are? - In Florence. - Thank you.

Did your cousin say that the boy bit his sister?

- Was his name Emilio? - Yup.

- When did you meet him? - At Easter.

To and Paolino we left the church and he was in front of his building.

- Look! - That jerk can't ride a bike.

Look!

At that moment Liù passed

and Paolino tried to show her how good he was.

I didn't imagine that the stone would ruin our lives.

A H i s "Emilio! -I-Sca ppa '!

(growl) - Stop!

(Growl)

- Are you sure what you're saying? - Yup.

I have seen his teeth other times too.

On the eve of First Communions, the parish priest came to the sacristy.

He could not have seen those teeth, and so also the sacristan.

Seated.

Most of you

they still don't know him,

but Emilio came to live here and he became

one of our parishioners.

Has the teeth of the pig, does the pastor know?

- What are you saying? - Emilio is a boy who has suffered a lot.

We must all welcome it

as a friend.

Give him your hand.

First Communions were not celebrated since the end of the war.

The children were dressed up

and the families had spent all the savings on the refreshment.

Corpus Christi.

Corpus Christi.

(they sing)

(they sing)

Corpus Christi.

Do not touch.

You stepped on the body of Jesus.

He made me stumble.

Dear parishioners,

in 26 years of priesthood

the holy day of First Communions

it has never been marred

from a sacrilegious episode

of this gravity.

The ceremony can only be suspended.

(confused voices)

The next day Paolino did not come to school.

The teacher said he was sick.

Tolomei asked: "Did you get sick because you stepped on the host?"

The teacher said she didn't know but with the tone of who she knew.

Do you think he thought he was sick because he stepped on the host?

I don't know if she believed it, but she only asked me to bring her homework.

- How are you? - And who knows?

- I brought homework. - Go up.

I brought you homework.

- I won't. - Why?

- I will go away. - Where is it?

I don't know, but even if I die, I will never leave here.

What are you saying?

Are we friends or would you rather go and look at Liù without me?

Jokes?

Close the door.

If I die, take a good look around.

I will make you a secret sign.

So you will understand that it is me and you will not be afraid.

Promise?

Promised.

(bell)

- I have to talk to Emilio. - Why?

- On the part of Paolino Osti who is very ill. - I try.

Wait here.

Come.

If that's what you wanted, Paolino Osti is very bad.

Are you going to the parish priest to say that it was you who gave him the push?

Tell him that the best is yet to come.

- Aren't you going to the parish priest? - You'll see what a nice surprise...

(shortness of breath)

(shortness of breath)

(breathing stops)

Don't you really think your friend died from stepping on the host?

- What did you do? - I was waiting for the sign he promised me.

Hey, Carlo... Do you know this?

- Pauline's file. - There are still new notebooks.

- Use them, he would be happy. - Thank you.

Paolino, the sign!

Paolino, the sign!

You promised me.

- Didn't you have any other friends? - No, I was going to help Father

with the pee of pregnant women for a pharmaceutical company.

Every day I collected the urine and in return I gave two eggs.

Hurry up!

Liù!

- Did you come? - Is it your pee? You're pregnant?

Paolino's funeral was beautiful.

- No funeral is beautiful. - Was he in love with me?

- Is it true that he saw you naked? - Not all of it. - I can see you too?

- He gave me a hen. - I'll give you a rabbit. - Go further back.

Yet.

(horn)

- Your dad is playing. - Here we go! Move!

Remember the rabbit.

Come on!

Power! Here we go.

Salts!

(Bells)

- Are you coming to find your friend? - I'm waiting for his sign but he doesn't.

- Would you like to talk to him? - But you can't.

Do as I tell you

and you will talk to him.

- Such as? - Go tell the parish priest that you chose the lady's son

as an altar boy in place of Pauline.

Tell him you want to help him because everyone is talking bad about him

and he is very alone. - Then?

Emilio will help you get Paolino back.

How do you say that?

- I know. - Such as?

I helped him put on the crush.

Touching it made sense to me.

His skin on his arms was as hard and hairy as that of a pig.

(pray in Latin)

What do you have?

- Do you want to wake up your friend? - How do you know it?

On Sunday you will make First Communion. Bring the host to the boar.

Remove it from your mouth secretly, then put it in its mash

and check that you eat it.

- To who? - To the male of the pig. - What are you saying?

Check that you eat it.

- Where did you end up? - Nothing.

What do you have?

Aren't you doing your homework?

Make sure you eat it soon.

Come on, Paolino, let's do our homework.

"In the concave sky sparkles."

"In the... concave... sky...

It is you?

Are you Pauline?

Our secret sign!

Only the real Pauline knows where we hid the principal's bicycle.

(Pauline's voice) In the cooperative's dunghill.

And you think a judge will believe this story? Do you know what you risk?

No.

10 years to rot in a three-meter cell.

Permissions...

- What did you do then? - I was afraid and I told everything to my parents.

Do not be afraid.

They can help you.

Come.

He's my cousin.

- Do you know why you're here? - I did something I shouldn't have done.

Do you want to tell me what it is exactly?

I just wanted to get my friend back with me.

You gave your Communion to the most disgusting beast of creation.

- Who told you to do it? - The lady's son.

That's a madman who massacred his sister!

Did you believe that poor fool?

Tell me everything.

- I'd like to speak to your mother. - Mom!

- What's up? - He has to talk to you.

Ma'am, can you come down, please?

A male yields a lot, here it is full of sows in heat.

- I'll pay it. - How much? - How much do you want?

- No, dad, the rifle no! - Why not?

- Charles! - Dad, no!

- No! - Why not?

(pray in Latin)

Come! Come!

Dad!

Dad!

No!

Dad!

Dad!

(Emilio's voice) You were the one who killed the Devil,

to have the boar killed.

Your father?

Where's your dad?

Tell me where.

Out. It does not move.

No! No!

Giulio!

Giulio!

Go call the Carabinieri.

Ready? I am the parish priest of Lio piccolo.

(inaudible voices)

What happened?

A terrible thing.

Guardi.

- Why didn't you say you suspected him? - They wouldn't believe me.

(voice of Emilio) I know it was you who killed the boar.

They say your father is dead.

I'm sorry.

You killed him, don't come near!

Don't come near!

Stop!

Paolino, please help me!

(yell out)

I'm cold.

Cover me, I'm dying.

Enough for today. Take it away.

"At 17:30 the investigating judge

suspends the deposition of the accused who is brought back to prison.

Clara Vestri Musy, mother of the victim, is interrogated. "

- How did it all start? - My son started having seizures

in the first year of age.

The pediatrician called them "epileptic seizures"

and subjected Emilio to the electric shock.

He was worse.

Then it turned out that it all depended on...

a brain tumor.

We took him to Switzerland where they underwent a cure

radiation-based.

He was a boy who had spent most of his life in the hospital

and saw in all of us

his executioners.

We thought of giving him a little brother or sister.

But my husband was too old.

Or maybe I was.

Then one day, in the hospital,

I saw a girl born prematurely, her mother had died of hemorrhage.

We fell in love.

She doesn't imagine how beautiful she was.

We called her Valeria.

Emilio was always attached to the glass to look at it.

He was in an incubator with three other babies.

Then...

A morning...

A morning...

My Valeria fell asleep forever.

- Isn't the brother responsible for his death? - But what he says?

He lost control over the death of his little sister.

He was hospitalized in a psychiatric facility.

We are talking about a girl that someone says

was torn to pieces by her son.

I don't know what idea you are making of this story.

- I'm looking for the truth. - It's not complicated.

- What would that be? - My son was killed by superstition,

from the madness of that half-nun, of the sacristan

and all that gravitates around the Church.

He must not be afraid of blaming them for what happened.

The Patriarch should not be afraid

nor local authorities.

I think his suggestions go beyond the role.

(Growl)

(roar)

Corrado!

Good morning. You are welcome...

Please, take a seat.

- Tell me. - I have a reservation. - A document.

(knocking) - Yes?

- I'm the doorman. - I come.

- It is allowed? - Yes good...

They brought this for her.

- Who? - I don't know, a boy.

See her.

- The dentist? - For a visit? - It's like it was.

- Ache? - No, I need your opinion.

Can I stand here?

- What am I? - They look like two teeth to me?

- Where they come from? - I do not know.

Maybe it's a joke.

They could be the canines of an animal.

Can't it be a human being?

- Most likely I'm from a pig. I mean?

The wild boar are twice the size.

It can be a wild pig, I didn't think they existed yet.

- What about the boy? - The cause of death is the trauma caused

from the stone that has reached and torn

the internal carotid artery.

During the autopsy, the professor was interrupted.

It seems to me that it was an urgent phone call.

- How did the autopsy end? - It didn't end.

The professor returned very agitated.

He asked me to postpone the examination the next day.

The next day I found the autopsy report in my office.

The professor had worked alone all night

to obtain the authorization from the judiciary for burial

and give the body to the family. - Is that why he didn't sign?

I could not sign it, had not respected the procedure.

The professor got very angry.

(crying baby)

- I shouldn't have done it. - Why? - Maybe I would have avoided the heart attack.

People have questioned my autopsy.

In this city, if you do good, they hate you.

During the autopsy, she was called on the phone.

Then he said he would continue the next day,

but instead he did it that night. - Yup.

The mother was desperate.

He feared that they could make ignoble inferences about his Emilio.

Who?

Of the nuns.

She does not know

how strong the bond can be

between a mother and the being she generated.

It doesn't matter that it's deformed.

She was trying to protect him

from the mockery of the people.

It was still his mother.

(bell) - Grandfather, he's the doctor.

- I promise you my privacy... - Tell me.

- What did the mother ask? - Didn't you guess?

If I had found something abnormal about the boy during the autopsy,

I should have kept silent. - On your teeth?

How are you today?

- You are welcome, thanks.

Your Excellency, our undersecretary?

He greets you cordially.

- My presence here... - Absolutely confidential.

The boy believes you're an office lawyer.

We are not sure that he will want to meet her.

How does it behave?

He doesn't say a word.

Not even to the chaplain.

But the judge told the whole story.

He could have killed another boy, not quite his son!

She is powerful.

- Then? - He's in the parlor.

Evidently he changed his mind.

He is a very special boy.

Here it is.

I'll wait for you here.

Hello.

I read the interrogation.

You don't seem to have been forced to say things you didn't mean.

Someone sent me these.

When you went back to the swine with the nuns

and your father killed the boar,

someone broke his fangs?

Are these the boar's fangs?

Tell me. I'm here to help you, let me understand why you did it.

If you don't want to talk to me, why did you agree to see me?

They are Emilio's teeth.

- Who sent them to me? - Someone who is afraid.

Emilio was born with those fangs and with that skin because his mom

she got herself mounted by a beast. - How can you believe this?

Everyone knows that Emilio was like that for the boar's sperm.

- He knew the things of the dead that nobody knows. - Which things?

- How to wake them up. - I'm sorry, it's time for dinner.

Okay, go.

- Please... - What?

- A person knows that everything is true but does not want to say it. - Who is it?

Gino, the sacristan.

Maybe he's afraid of the lady.

He knows what's under the church.

- Hello? - Hello. - And she! - How's my dad?

- All right, it just... - Maybe...

When I go back to Rome... I'm not good at this.

However...

If you like seeing me again, maybe we'll go out.

He doesn't have to answer right away.

In fact, I prefer not to know.

- The conversa Dolores? - He's waiting for you.

- Are you here for the lady's son? - Yup.

Don't trust her.

Mother Superior holds her here out of compassion,

but she is a mad visionary. - How do you know?

She was in the service of the lady and was kicked out for what she said.

Then...

You say your cousin has made sacrilege to obey Satan.

Explain me better.

How did Satan manifest?

In return he promised him that his friend Pauline

he would wake up from death. - You are convinced that Emilio

was the devil? - Emilio has always acted

following the suggestion of the sacristan.

He is the real evil, the bad master of Emilio.

If a mother takes her son to the exorcist,

there is a reason. - The exorcist?

Father Amedeo! There is a visit for you.

Father, there is a visit for you.

One moment.

Excuse me, it's time for insulin. Come in.

You can go.

- Read this and you will understand. - It does not matter.

- You don't want to know who I am and why I'm here? - Sit down.

He's here for Mrs Vestri Musy's son.

Her murder turned her into our worst enemy.

The story that he killed his little sister in that terrible way

Did you do that to that kind of nun?

Poor Emilio is only one victim of the situation.

Whatever he's been accused of, his parents are responsible.

Especially his father.

Completely crazy.

- Did you meet Emilio? - A physically deformed human being

and mentally compromised.

The murderer says his skin and teeth were not human.

In peasant culture,

the different, the deformed is associated with the devil.

To Lio Piccolo

they did not emancipate themselves. - What was his appearance?

Someone tried to be useful to her.

Have you not received a small gift?

You mean that kind of teeth?

He shouldn't have accepted this assignment.

Why?

It is not just a murder between two peers.

- You know that well. - What else is there?

There is a place and a time that are only of that place.

- What place? - A place where you waited.

I do not understand.

Whoever gave her this little gift is waiting for her.

- The key, thank you. - Doctor, here she is.

A lady is waiting for her, she is sitting there.

Doctor Momenté?

It was not difficult to find it,

the forensic primary is my friend.

Momenté is a surname you remember.

And Venice is empty this season.

My name is Clara Vestri Musy.

You are here for an investigation parallel to that

of the investigating judge. - To prevent irregularities.

Your nun was the first to describe my son as a beast.

I want you to know what damage your faith does.

Those nuns and the sacristan should go to jail.

The Patriarch and the Government,

a few months after the vote, they are alarmed.

It is comprensible.

We will be many to celebrate when we see the Venetian DC on her knees.

The first part of the investigation has gray areas.

Which?

The autopsy is irregular because it is not signed by the other doctor.

Are you opposed to the exhumation?

What would it do?

You ask me to trade the real reasons for my son's murder

for an election bailout.

You don't believe in my pain.

True?

Doctor, there is a call for you. Take a seat in the cabin.

- I'm Momenté. - He got caught in two days.

- This was a secret inspection. - I'm on the right track.

That's why we never gave her a mission.

You are an incapable, only able to tidy up the archive.

Come back immediately. We will send someone to fix his mess.

- He feels bad? - No, they'll send someone else.

What can I do for you?

They will send someone else.

- There's still the one on the phone. - I'm sorry.

- Don't let yourself be called again. - All right.

- Hello? - I'm sorry if they scolded you.

No, but here they don't want to.

A terrible thing happened to me. The only positive thing

is that I am going back to Rome and I will be able to see it again. - I don't know if I can.

I couldn't tell her the other time, but...

- Do you have a boyfriend? - Yes, for a year. - They took my investigation away.

- I'll find the truth myself. - I'm sorry.

I am committing madness.

I will have a serious penalty or dismissal.

My only opportunity to change them is to discover this mystery.

They have given Carlo conditional release because he is going crazy.

But because he wanted me to come here to find the sacristan

who was the only one who knew what was under the church?

And why that friar told me

that I shouldn't have accepted the job?

(confused voices)

Give me a hand...

- Is there a place to sleep? - Are you here for the trial?

- Yes. - He'll have to settle. - All right.

Accompany.

Come.

Leave it, I'll do it.

My wife has the keys to the church.

Where are the parish priest and sacristan?

Poor Don Dario...

they say he died in a clinic in Padua.

- Gino instead... - Yes, him?

- It's hard to find. - Why?

He doesn't like to be found.

Nina!

Nina!

- What's up? Hello. - He will sleep

in the rectory, it belongs to the Ministry. - Okay, I'll take the key.

- Can you tell me where Gino is? - Leave him alone, it's not his fault.

It is not the fault of anyone on earth.

Here.

The parish priest slept up here.

The switch broke. To turn on, turn the bulb.

Two blankets, the pillow... but pillowcases and sheets are not there.

- All right. - The toilet is under the staircase.

There is a tap in the sacristy.

- The water is drinkable. - Thank you.

- Shall I send you something to eat? - Don't bother, thanks. - All right.

(indistinct noise)

(crying baby)

(crying baby)

(crying baby)

(crying baby)

My wife prepared this.

Maybe he would have preferred something else...

The eggs are of our production.

- Drink the latte until it is hot. - Thank you. - I'll leave it here.

I know where the nun is.

- Sister Dolores, your cousin? - Yup.

Maybe it can help her convince Gino.

Is there a child here?

- I heard crying all night. - As far as I know, no.

- You're Laura, aren't you? - Thank you. - Imagine...

Dear Miss Laura,

knowing that she was already tied to another deeply saddened me.

I hope it is a young man who is capable of loving her as much as she deserves.

I wish you would report to my poor father

that for the results I got,

the undersecretary rejoiced with me

also on behalf of the Head of Government.

If one day I meet her with her boyfriend,

know how to see in my gaze the love that will bind me to her forever.

I'll wait here.

Thank you.

(Bells)

Hi, I was looking for the Mother Superior.

- What was Sister Dolores? - I knew he was looking for you.

For a month our Dolores has flown to Heaven.

I guess he's here for that heinous story.

I'm looking for the sacristan of the church of Santa Maria della Neve.

Can you help me? You don't have to fear anything from me.

She's gone, she's been dead for a month.

They say that if a nun dies, it won't snow.

- You were looking for me? - Are you Gino?

They told me you want to help Carlo.

- And look for information on that story. - Nobody believes him.

She told me that she can show me that Emilio was really bad.

Come.

Here they would never find it.

- What is that? - The parish register of 1943.

Here... read here.

"They were brought, torn by horrendous wounds,

the remains of a baby girl,

contained in a fruit crate.

They are accompanied by a letter that I transcribe. "

Read the letter.

"Distinguished Monsignor, the writer is the mother of the child

died from the terrible bites of a beast.

The beast, albeit induced by jealousy,

will have the punishment it deserves. "

It is shocking!

Yup.

Continue.

"Please baptize her with the name of Valeria.

I have decided to resort to his discretion

and his friendship for our family.

I entrust his innocent soul to the good God. Clara Vestri Musy. "

She knew it. And also the parish priest.

It is evident, the beast is his son.

How does the mother rely on your silence?

It is from that night that I do not give myself peace.

The Carabinieri came every day to look for me.

Then they stopped.

But I still don't sleep.

What is it that forced you to keep quiet?

Tell me. He will feel better afterwards.

The morning we heard about Emilio's death,

someone phoned his mother in Venice.

The sea was rough and the motorboats could not leave.

Then he called the parish priest. - What did he say? - I do not know.

But the parish priest took the dentist to the Mongiorgi house,

where the doctor and I had been lying on a table

the corpse of Emilio.

The dentist was very scared

because he knew about the many rumors.

Take the boy away.

Come with me.

- What happened? - I killed him. - Killed? - Yup.

(buzz)

Are you sure he's dead?

- Are you convinced now? - They are fangs. I have never seen anything like this.

- I don't know what you're doing and if I can let you do it. - Come.

- No... - Don't worry, trust me. Go!

I'll explain later.

Go away.

The dentist had understood

because the lady didn't want to

that the autopsy doctors saw him

and believed all those who said

who had conceived it with the sperm of a pig.

- - The entrance is there.

(yell out)

(screams from inside)

Madam... is that there.

Only the child remains.

Thing?

We could take her to the judge to prove that he was the one who tore it up.

I'm not going back there anymore.

You will immediately find the box, just got off.

I didn't hide it.

(shortness of breath)

(shortness of breath)

(screams from underground)