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TAPE: EF02/0187 IN_TIME: 00:04:25 DURATION: 1:30 SOURCES: APTN/VNR RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video/tv clips without clearance DATELINE: Rome - 5 March 2002 VOICED BY Emily Morgan SHOTLIST: APTN 0000 Wide shot St Peter's Basilica 0007 Mid shot people in the street 0011 Mid shot movie poster for 'I Banchieri di Dio' VNR - Clip from 'I Banchieri di Dio' 0016 UPSOUND (Italian) Bishop Marcinkus (played by Rutger Hauer) "Dear God, we trust in your infinite mercy for the tormented soul of Roberto Calvi, whose industrious life we could never have imagined would end like this." 0023 Various movie clip APTN 0037 SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giuseppe Ferrara, Director of 'I Banchieri di Dio' VNR - Clip from film "I Banchieri di Dio" 0049 Various scene with Roberto Calvi (played by Omero Antonutti) and Bishop Marcinkus (played by Rutger Hauer) APTN - March 6 - Rome 0101 SOUNDBITE (Italian) Claudio Siniscalchi, Editorial Director, Cinematographer's Magazine (a Catholic magazine) VNR - Clip from film "I Banchieri di Dio" 0113 Various clips from film ENDS 0129 STORYLINE: A controversial new movie, which is said to have infuriated the Vatican, is due to premiere in the Italian city of Turin. The film suggests that four years after the election of the Pope the Holy See was at the centre of a conspiracy involving drug-running mafiosi, corrupt bankers and politicians, arms traders, Freemasons and spies. 'I Banchieri di Dio' - or 'God's Banker' - tells the story of Italian financier Roberto Calvi who was once the president of the biggest private bank in Italy. 0003 The Vatican is said to be furious about the controversial new movie. 0007 'God's Banker' suggests the Holy See was at the centre of a conspiracy involving drug-running, corrupt bankers and politicians, arms traders, Freemasons and spies. 0016 (UPSOUND (Italian) Bishop Marcinkus) 0023 The film tells the story of Italian financier Roberto Calvi, who was once the president of the biggest private bank in Italy. 0030 The movie investigates the ties between Calvi, a Bishop at the Vatican Bank, Italian government officials and the Mafia. 0037 (SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giuseppe Ferrara, Director of 'I Banchieri di Dio') 0039 "Certainly the Vatican doesn't come out of this looking good. One cannot commit such major criminal offences," the director, Giuseppe Ferrara, says. 0049 Ferrara says he has proof that deals were struck between Calvi - who was known as 'God's Banker' - and the Vatican Bank. 0057 But the editorial director of a Catholic film magazine begs to differ. 0101 (SOUNDBITE (Italian) Claudio Siniscalchi, Editorial Director, Cinematographer's Magazine - a Catholic magazine) 0104 "The media can construct from nothing facts that don't exist and make them become truths," he says. 0113 After the collapse of Calvi's bank in 1982, he was found hanging from a bridge in London, and the film backs the theory in Italy that his death wasn't suicide, but murder. 0123 The Vatican says it had to pay 250 (m) million dollars to Calvi's creditors. ENDS 0129