La seconda volta

In Turin, the former Fiat manager professor Alberto Sajevo happens to meet the terrorist Lisa Venturi, the woman who tried to kill him twelve years previously. He recognises her at once, but she has no idea who he is. Alberto, who is still walking around with a bullet in his head, starts surreptitiously arranging more meetings. Lisa pretends to be an ordinary working woman and Alberto doesn’t let on that he knows she has to return to her prison cell every evening where she is serving a thirty-year sentence. A cat and mouse game ensues in which Alberto tries to get an answer to questions that have tortured him for twelve years.Mimmo Calopresti: ‘La seconda volta is a journey back to a prominent point in Italian history, a moment that determined thepolitical and personal life of the whole country. The story of Lisa and Alberto evokes a series of questions about the possibility of coming to terms with the past and above all about personal forgiveness.’La seconda volta was produced by Sacher Film, a company owned by leading actor Nanni Moretti. Leading lady Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is almost unrecognisable in her retiring role as former terrorist, whose only freedom is her work in the factory.