Il Signor Diavolo, Fotogramma, Cineteca Nazionale - CSC
event
Saturday 28 February 2026 4.30 PM

screening - Film Genres: Then and NowIl signor Diavoloby Pupi Avati

MAXXI auditorium
free admission subject to availability
duration: 87 minutes

opening hours

Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm

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An intense Gothic horror, poised between religion and superstition.

The film is set in the Polesine area in the 1950s: a child dies – of malaria, according to the doctors – yet his friend believes he has fallen victim to a curse, after desecrating a consecrated host during his First Communion. Determined to uncover the truth, he seeks to make contact with a mysterious figure said to have dealings with the Devil himself.

Film Genres: Then and Now is a programme curated by Fabio Melelli that brings together timeless classics and more recent films, showing how genre cinema continually renews itself through distinctive authorial visions.

Introduction by
Fabio Melelli, Pupi and Antonio Avati

In collaboration with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale.


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