
The dramatic events of the composer Mario Sirchi, falsely accused of murder, and his girlfriend Adonella who is revealed to have a secret sister: Nayda..

Mario Sirchi’s world is built of fifths and phrygian turns, not motives for homicide, yet the camera refuses to blink as gendarmes drag him across the piazza. The film’s first third is a lesson in chiaroscuro: faces picked out by carbide lamps, alleyways gulping down electric flickers like thirsty throats. Directors S...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Roberto Roberti

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" Mario Sirchi’s world is built of fifths and phrygian turns, not motives for homicide, yet the camera refuses to blink as gendarmes drag him across the piazza. The film’s first third is a lesson in chiaroscuro: faces picked out by carbide lamps, alleyways gulping down electric flickers like thirsty throats. Directors Sandro Salvini and Vittorio Bianchi—pulling double duty behind and in front of the lens—stage accusation like a liturgy. Every tilted beret, every nonna clutching rosary beads, beco..."

Francesca Bertini
Sandro Salvini, Vittorio Bianchi
Italy

