As Chianese
•Politically engaged and controversial director, Boisset, ventures into this film with a thriller, and decides to take on a task too big for his cinematic portfolio: the film is indeed the adaptation of the most beautiful book by Giorgio Scerbanenco, an Italian crime writer of great talent. Dr. Duca Lamberti (Bruno Cremer) after serving a few years in prison for causing the death of an elderly patient, as soon as he is free tries to restart his profession and accepts to follow a young alcoholic. One day the young man reveals to the doctor that he met a girl who was then mysteriously killed... Duca Lamberti begins an investigation that will lead him into the world of Milanese prostitution in the years following the Italian economic boom. In the cast, Mario Adorf and a dazzling Raffaella Carrà stand out, but in the end the product is only damaged by the screenplay: too lacking from a narrative point of view and rich in nude and masochistic scenes that, frankly, could have been avoided. To be seen not before having read the book.
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