Synopsis
The Big Fake (Il falsario, 2025) is an Italian crime drama directed by Stefano Lodovichi that you can watch online on iFILM. Rome in the 1970s. Toni Chichiarelli comes to the city wanting to be a painter — proper canvases, proper galleries. His talent opens a very different kind of door.
Organised crime finds him before the art world does. He starts forging paintings for money, then slides further into networks where fake signatures wind up attached to things far beyond stolen art — state secrets, political scandals, power. Pietro Castellitto plays Chichiarelli with a controlled unease, the look of someone who has benefited too much to walk back out. Claudio Santamaria and Fabrizio Ferracane round out a world where the 1970s Italian republic and its criminal underside were genuinely hard to tell apart.
What Lodovichi does well is hold the procedural detail and the character study in the same frame without letting either collapse into the other. Based in part on real events. Stream The Big Fake (2025) online on iFILM.
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