Seduto alla sua destra

In an unnamed African country, Maurice Lalubi (Woody Strode), a freedom activist striving for a nonviolent revolution, is betrayed and captured by white mercenaries working for a local tyrant. He shares a prison cell with Oreste (Franco Citti), an Italian petty criminal arrested and tortured for selling a truck to the rebels. Oreste recognizes the moral greatness of his cellmate and tends to Lalubi’s wounds. Originally planned as a medium-length segment for the anthology film Amore e rabbia, Zurlini decided to develop a feature-length film based on the Gospel Story. This was a polarizing film made by a Christian communist about violence and mercy, with allusions to Jesus Christ and Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo assassinated in 1961, as well as to other liberation movements of the Global South.