The Moment of Truth
The Moment of Truth (Il momento della verità), from director Francesco Rosi, is a visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero—played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelín. Charting his rise and fall with a single-minded focus on the bloody business at hand, the film is at once gritty and operatic, placing the viewer right in the thick of the ring’s action, as close to death as possible. Like all of the great Italian truth seeker’s films, this is not just an electrifying drama but also a profound and moving inquiry into a violent world—and it’s perhaps the greatest bullfighting movie ever made.
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Exclusive interview with director Francesco Rosi from 2004
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Peter Matthews
New cover by Eric Skillman
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Exclusive interview with director Francesco Rosi from 2004
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Peter Matthews
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Miguel Mateo, “Miguelín”
- Miguel, the torero
- José Gomez Sevillano
- Don José, the agent
- Don Ernesto
- Himself
- Pedro Basauri, “Pedrucho”
- Pedrucho, the maestro
- Linda Christian
- Linda, the American lady
- Luque Gago
- The troupe of toreros
- Salvador Mateo
- Manuel Ruiz Serrana
- Francisco Caño
- José Rodriguez Matia
- Manolo Perez Moratilla
- José Vizcaino
Credits
- Director
- Francesco Rosi
- Executive producer
- Angelo Rizzoli Jr.
- Producer
- Antonio Cervi
- Producer
- Francesco Rosi
- Story and screenplay
- Francesco Rosi
- Cowriters
- Pedro Portabella
- Cowriters
- Ricardo Muñoz Suay
- Cowriters
- Pedro Beltran
- Cinematography
- Gianni Di Venanzo
- Cinematography
- Aiace Parolin
- Cinematography
- Pasqualino De Santis
- Editor
- Mario Serandrei
- Composer
- Piero Piccioni
- Production manager
- Enzo Provenzale
- Sound
- Claudio Maielli
- Sound
- Mario Ronchetti
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