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L’Ombra di Caravaggio, a film exploring the intricate and adventurous existence of Caravaggio (pen name of Michelangelo Merisi), premieres on Sky on Monday, June 19 at 9:15 p.m. on Sky Cinema Uno, and at 9:45 p.m. on Sky Cinema Drama, streaming on NOW and available on demand on Sky Go. The film will also be available in 4K on Sky Cinema 4K on June 19, 9:15 p.m. and on demand.

Written, directed and starring Michele Placido, the film recounts the artist in his deep contradictions and the darkness of his impenetrable torment. It stars Riccardo Scamarcio, joined by Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert, Micaela Ramazzotti, Tedua, Vinicio Marchioni, and Lolita Chammah. The film was awarded the David dei Giovani 2023.

Rebellious, independent and transgressive, Placido's Caravaggio is a cursed artist of absolute talent, a star of his time forced to face the disturbing implications of a reckless life in which genius and unruliness coexist.

In 1600, Michelangelo Merisi is a brilliant artist rebelling against the Council of Trent, which drew exact coordinates in the representation of sacred art. After learning that Caravaggio used prostitutes, thieves and vagabonds in his sacred paintings, Pope Paul V decides to commission a secret Vatican agent to carry out a proper investigation, to decide whether to grant the pardon the painter asked for after he was sentenced to death for killing his rival in love in a duel. So, an investigator known as Shadow starts his activities of inquiry and espionage to investigate the painter – a Shadow who will have in his hands absolute power, of life and death, over the fate of a genius.