Sin (2019 film)
# Sin (2019 film)

Sin (Russian: Грех; Italian: Il peccato – Il furore di Michelangelo) is a Russian-Italian biographical drama film written and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky released in October 2019.

## Plot

The film tells about the life of the famous sculptor and painter of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarroti of Florence, in the early 16th century. Michelangelo is a pious and argumentative artist. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. While painting the chapel he is also pressured to simultaneously complete the statues which are part of the tomb designed and intended for Pope Julius II.

When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist's loyalty is tested when Leo X, of the rival Medici family, ascends to the papacy and charges him with a lucrative new commission – the façade of the San Lorenzo basilica. Forced to lie to maintain favour with both families, Michelangelo is progressively tormented by suspicion and hallucinations, leading him to ruthlessly examine his own moral and artistic failings.

## Cast

* Alberto Testone as Michelangelo Buonarroti
* Julia Vysotskaya as Lady with an Ermine
* Riccardo Landi as Al Farab
* Jakob Diehl as Peppe
* Antonio Gargiulo as Francesco Maria Della Rovere
* Nicola Adobati as Lorenzo de Medici duca d'Urbino
* Massimo De Francovich as Pope Julius II
* Simone Toffanin as Pope Leo X
* Nicola De Paola as Cardinale Giulio de' Medici
* Adriano Chiaramida as Ludovico Buonarroti
* Glen Blackhall as Raphael
* Orso Maria Guerrini as Marchese Malaspina
* Gianluca Guidi as Egidio da Viterbo
* Federico Vanni as Jacopo Sansovino
* Toni Pandolfo as Dante Alighieri

## Reception

Sin has an approval rating of 95% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 19 reviews, and an average rating of 7.3/10. It also has a score of 65 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

