The movie, written by the director and Edoardo Sanguineti, with the advice of Lucio Lombardo Radice, recalls, in a continue flashback, the short life of the mathematician Evariste Galois (1811-1832), a radical republican and followers of Buonarroti and Blanqui’s revolutionary ideas. In the night before the duel, when he was wounded to death, a twenty-one years old Galois wrote sixteen pages, as if it were his scientific testament, regarded today as an ingenious advance of abstract algebra.
A high cultural level movie presenting an intricate narrative structure, paying attention to the lesson of Brecht, Artaud, Peter Weiss and to the cinematographic one of Godard: didactic and alienated performance, tv like format, expressionist deformed set, forced couplings with socio-political reality of ‘70s.