Filmvorführung „Mord im Dom – Die Medici“ (2022)

The Medici are the most powerful family in Renaissance Florence. They dominated politics and business. The old-established Pazzi family wants to break the Medici's influence and plans to assassinate the two Medici brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo. During the Easter fair in 1478, Francesco de' Pazzi and a group of men attack the unsuspecting brothers. Giuliano dies immediately from Francesco's furious stabbing. The brutality of the crime can still be seen today in the bones of the victim. But Lorenzo manages to escape. The coup d'état in Florence fails. The perpetrators are quickly caught and the search for those behind the conspiracy begins.

As part of the special exhibition "The Pazzi Conspiracy. Power, Violence and Art in Renaissance Florence", the Bode Museum on Berlin's Museum Island is showing the Medici case on the big screen. The episode "Murder in the Cathedral - The Medici" (director: Cuini Amelio Ortiz) is part of the "Cold Case History" series, which examines major murder cases in history and retells them as historical crime stories, using modern forensic technology.

The film will be shown in German. Participation is included in the museum admission price.