This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello's mind.

Starring:

Alessandro Haber, Carlo Gaddi, Christian Aligny, Dominique Sanda, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, Furio Pellerani, Gastone Moschin, Giuseppe Addobbati, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jose Quaglio, Luciano Rossi, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Massimo Sarchielli, Milly, Orso Maria Guerrini, Pierangelo Civera, Pierre Clementi, Stefania Sandrelli, Umberto Silvestri, Yvonn

Genre:

Drama