La Grazia — Characters & Cast

To finish his mandate without betraying either the law he has studied all his life or the people — living and dead — he loves.

Begins as a composed technician of the law — the man credited with stabilising a country in crisis — armoured in procedure and widowerhood. The two clemency cases and his daughter's bill dismantle that armour, moving him from certainty through doubt toward something closer to grace and forgiveness.

To see the law catch up with human suffering — and, beneath that, to be genuinely seen by her father.

A jurist working alongside her father, she is the architect and advocate of the euthanasia bill, which makes every professional argument a familial one. Her insistence forces the President out of his abstractions; her performance earned Ferzetti the Pasinetti Award at Venice.

Release from a sentence for an act he understands as mercy rather than murder.

A man convicted for ending the life of his wife in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's, petitioning for pardon. He functions as the President's double: another husband who had to decide what love owes a dying spouse.