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Andreotti, Giulio

Born Jan. 14, 1919, in Rome. Italian state and political figure.

A lawyer by education, Andreotti has worked as a journalist. He began his political activity in the Catholic youth movement. In 1944 he became a member of the National Council of the Christian Democratic Party (CDP). He has been a member of Parliament continuously since 1948. Between 1954 and 1968, Andreotti held positions in several Italian governments; he was at different times minister of internal affairs, minister of finance, minister of the treasury, minister of defense, and minister of industry and commerce. In 1968 he was elected chairman of the CDP members in the Chamber of Deputies.

In 1972 and 1973 and again from 1976 to 1979, Andreotti was president of the Council of Ministers of Italy. In the period from 1973 to 1976 he served as minister of defense, minister for the budget and economic planning, and minister for southern affairs.

References in periodicals archive

While Paolo Sorrentino's sumptuous and bemused "Il Divo," 2008, examined political life in the interim between Eurocommunism and Berlusconi from the perspective of political insider Giulio Andreotti, Garrone's 2008 "Gomorrah" took up that much-gnawed chestnut of Italian narrative, organized crime, specifically the grassroots allure of Napoli's Camorra.

A tale of dog-grooming and coke

President?"; "All my life, signora..." Toni Servillo is Giulio Andreotti, the slippery (and deeply corrupt) seven-time Prime Minister of Italy -- but Paolo Sorrentino's glorious mood-piece is by no means a biopic, more a style-enabled portrait of a hollow man.

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1976 Giulio Andreotti is sworn in as prime minister of Italy.

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The grotesque tinge that consequently characterizes the film finds in Sorrentino's Il divo (2008), with which it shares the editor Cristiano Travaglioli, an important reference point--especially in its treatment of Giulio Andreotti, as will be discussed below.

A Cinematic Anti-Monument against Mafia Violence: P. Diliberto's La mafia uccide solo d'estate

O'Rawe studia le interpretazioni di quattro attori, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kim Rossi Stuart, Toni Servillo e Nanni Moretti, che hanno portato sullo schermo rispettivamente il terrorista Sergio Segio, il criminale Renato Vallanzasca, il politico Giulio Andreotti e l'imprenditore/politico Silvio Berlusconi.

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In the 90s he was part of a high profile court case involving Italy's most famous post-war leader, Giulio Andreotti. The seven-times PM was sensationally charged with ordering the murder of Mino Pecorelli, a journalist threatening to reveal his darkest political secrets.

Facing justice The one-eyed mafia don they call the Last King of Rome; PS160M CRIME BOSSs held in anti-corruption crusade

Italian statesman Giulio Andreotti, 94, died in Rome.

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