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Of all the political kidnappings of the 1970s, few were as traumatic as the 1978 abduction of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by members of the left-wing extremist group the Red Brigade. Moro had recently negotiated an alliance between his own Christian Democratic Party and the Italian Communist party; by kidnapping him, the Red Brigade hoped to foment enough political unrest to lead domesticated communists back to their revolutionary roots. What they did instead was murder six people, including Moro himself. Italian director Marco Bellocchio revisits the "Moro Affair" from a fictionalized but deeply personal perspective, exploring misguided and murderous ide...