In this elegant and chilling story about world politics, the great Toni Servillo defies expectations playing two roles, imbuing each character with brilliant nuance and astonishing attention to detail. In the first, he personifies political failure in the role of the disgraced ideologue and party leader, Enrico Oliveri. In the second, he embodies the shrewd genius of a madman as Oliveri’s unhinged twin brother who seizes control of the nation amidst the void of his brother’s disappearance.
Cinematiki Maui 
What it happens to me when i see a film like “viva la liberta ” is that i am confronted with the magnificent interpretation by Tony Servillo in his dual role of the twin brothers that i tend to forget to mention the great acting job of Valerio Mastandrea playing his assistant with such a nuanced low key performance in which he says so much with his eyes and little gestures and tones of voice…