Il gallo di Renato Caccioppoli

Naples, 1938. Professor Renato Caccioppoli (1904-1959) is a universally recognized Neapolitan mathematical genius and a celebrated figure in his city. Diabolically handsome, this mad nephew of Mikhail Bakunin sets out to ruin the fanfare-filled, parade-filled meeting of his two cronies, Mussolini and Hitler, who have come to spend a day, May 5th, in the great city festooned with swastikas and fasces. At the height of the Nazi triumph, before an entire people and a Europe cheering for war, and an Italy that, that same year, is voting for racial laws, a man stands up, ironic in word and gesture, and ridicules racism, conformism, submission, and stupidity. A true, exemplary, luminous, mad, intoxicated, funny, and tragic story.