Exterior Night (Italian: Esterno notte) is a 2022 Italian-language drama film co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio based on the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro.
In 1978, Aldo Moro, the president of Christian Democracy (DC), attempted to form a government of national unity with the external support of the Italian Communist Party in what was a first time for a country belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty.
Monsignor Agostino Casaroli reports to Andreotti that the Pope has raised 20 billion lire to pay the ransom and that, with the consent of the Italian government, he would like to use a Vatican route to save Moro.
Cesare Curioni, chaplain of the San Vittore Prison, has the difficult task of mediating with the kidnappers, an attempt that fails because they refuse to provide proof that Moro is alive.
On 8 March, the BR are training in view of the attack on Moro's escort and Mario Moretti excludes Faranda because she has recently joined the group.
Back home, she reunites with her family and welcomes, almost reluctantly, various figures from the political scene, including Benigno Zaccagnini and Italy's president Giovanni Leone.
On 8 May, Antonio Mennini is secretly brought to the hideout so that Moro can confess for the last time: the statesman unburdens himself with him, accusing the entire DC and above all Andreotti of having sentenced him to death.
On 18 January 2020, Bellocchio announced that he would be shooting a series centered on the kidnapping of Aldo Moro; later the episodes were combined into a film divided into two parts.