Bella addormentata (2012)
Directed by Marco Bellocchio

Film Synopsis

On 23rd November 2008, Italy is divided by the fate of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who has been in a coma for 17 years.  The Italian courts have just granted Beppino Englaro, her father, the right to suspend the artificial means by which she is kept alive.  In the political storm that ensues, public opinion is inflamed.  Maria, a pro-life militant, leads a demonstration in front of the clinic where Eluana is soon to die, whilst in Rome her father, a senator, hesitates over voting for a law that will overturn this judgement.  Meanwhile, a well-known actress hopes that her own daughter will recover from the coma she has been in for many years...