A journey into the great beauty of Baroque Rome, when the city was the centre of western art and where every ambitious painter, sculptor and architect had to be. This is the story of the most famous artistic rivalry of all time, the one between Borromini and Bernini, but also the story of Borromini’s rivalry with himself: a genius so absorbed by his art that he turns it into a demon that devours him from the inside forcing him to choose death to reach eternity. It is the story of the architectural revolution of a solitary maestro who changed the appearance of Rome forever, by pushing himself to his limit, but also by battling conventions and prejudices, with the humility to learn from the past to invent the future.
Directed by Giovanni Troilo (Frida. Viva la Vida)
Original music by Remo Anzovino
Produced by Sky and Quoiat Films
Barberini Palace; St Peter’s canopy; San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane; Sant’Andrea al Quirinale; Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona; St Peter’s colonnade and Villa Adriana, Tivoli.