I was at war and I didn’t know it, Francesco Montanari is the Torregiani jeweler

I was at war but I didn’t know it, the plot

Milan, 1970s. Pierluigi Torregiani (Francesco Montanari) is an esteemed goldsmith. His business is going well and for this he wants to open a second shop, even if the period is that of the “Milan Caliber 9” with continuous robberies against traders.

One evening, while he is at the restaurant with his daughter Marisa (Juju Di Domenico) and some friends, gods enter bandits with weapons in hand. When he sees his daughter’s life threatened, he draws the gun he carries with him. One follows shooting in which to fall is also a thug from the clan of Catania.

Even if it is not the jeweler who sets the newspapers on fire, calling him an executioner, one “Sheriff” in civilian clothes, of course victim. In a period of political tension it becomes the symbol of a socioeconomic class to be permanently removed, e the target of terrorist group.

His life, and that of his family, his wife Elena (Laura Chiatti) and the three adopted children is in danger.

Torregiani, a man who does not listen to fear

Spied, chased and controlled. Death intimidations add up, and at home the phone rings incessantly, but on the other side of the phone no one speaks.

The life of a normal family plunges into a nightmare, and to the jeweler the escort is assigned by the police, who can hardly stand. In the nights spent in white, of silence and anxiety, his wife is always at his side Elena. But the fate for the jeweler is sealed. Even if he is overconfident,

Laura Chiatti and Juju Di Domenico. (01 Distribution)

Until the afternoon of February 16, 1979, he died in an ambush in front of his shop.

His son Alberto has been in a wheelchair ever since (Alessandro Tocco), shot in the back by a stray bullet from his father’s gun. While his daughter Marisa came out unscathed.

The violence of the lead years

I was in the war but I didn’t know it – freely inspired by the autobiographical book of the same name by Alberto Dabrazzi Torregiani And Stefano Rabozzi (Agar Edizioni) – takes away from the last days of the Milanese goldsmith’s life.

With the constant ticking of a clock, to mark the cursed time of a country in its darkest and most violent years. And what’s left to him.

Francesco Montanari. (01 Distribution)

Torregiani is a meticulous man, precise, that he handles with care Swiss watches with a perfect mechanism that if they get jammed he can readjust with his hands.

A worker who does not want to throw away everything I have built, and pursues a strong sense of justice. “The fear is here, but I can’t afford to listen to it. Otherwise I close everything, hut and puppets », he says.

The complex portrait of a man

Montanari returns the portrait of a ambitious man who he doesn’t want to lower his head and become part of a bigger cog, of a mechanism of politics and violence that does not belong to him.

To reinforce the truth of the facts e the realistic approach there is a careful historical reconstruction, aided by the use of images and footage from the repertoire such as the funeral of the same Torregiani. This gives the story the style of 1970s detective films, and westerns by Sergio Leone (starting from “Morriconian” music).

Francesco Montanari.

Montanari: “My Torregiani does not agree to pretend nothing has happened”

With his chiaroscuro the actor is convincing in the role of the disobedient bourgeois. Also because it abandons the typical Roman accent of the character of Lebanese in the series Criminal novel.

“Is my Torregiani a nasty one? He is in spite of himself, because he finds himself living in a dynamic stronger than him that he can no longer bear and so he rebels – he says Montanari. He does not agree to pretend nothing has happened, a pragmatic man who does not want to submit to something of which he is not guilty is fundamental. “

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