Set in the mountains of Friuli in the late 1500s, the film captures a period where the Church, threatened by the Protestant Reformation, unleashed the Inquisition to exert total control over the consciences of the faithful.
: Menocchio ( Marcello Martini ) is an old, stubborn miller who has read locally available books and developed his own radical views on God and creation. Menocchio (2018)
: Unlike many of his peers, Menocchio refuses to keep his heterodox beliefs quiet. He famously theorized that the universe formed from chaos like cheese from milk, with angels and even God appearing like worms in cheese. Set in the mountains of Friuli in the
