Synopsis
Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy while the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. Luca becomes a partisan but after the end of the war he is disappointed because things don't seem to have changed as he had hoped and he decides to let himself die. But he is saved by Edith who tries to introduce him to sex. When suddenly Edith, who was also the lover of luca's father, dies of a heart attack, Luca is sick again. This time he is saved by Angela, his nurse, who sells herself to buy the remedy to cure him. Angela becames Luca's lover when his parents go to Rome and when they come back Luca decides to leave them despising their lives.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Films Molière
- Foreign production company : Nickelodeon FIlms
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Tony Molière
- Screenwriters : Aldo Lado, Barbara Alberti, Amadeo Pagani
- Director of Photography : Dante Spinotti
- Music Composer : Ennio Morricone
- Editor : Alberto Gallitti
- Foreign producers : Valerio De Paolis, Giorgio Barattolo
- Author of original work : Alberto Moravia
- Line Producer : Jacques Ristori
- Production Designer : Mario Garbuglia
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Italian
- Coproducer countries : Italy, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Italy, France)
- Production year : 1981
- French release : 15/07/1981
- Runtime : 1 h 38 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 53325
- Visa issue date : 04/08/1981
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color