Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Germany, France, Italy
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
- paris
- france
- hitman
- italy
- fascism
- childhood trauma
- benito mussolini
- political assassination
- conformity
- anti-fascism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Marcello Clerici
Stefania Sandrelli
Giulia
Gastone Moschin
Manganiello
Dominique Sanda
Anna Quadri
- Enzo Tarascio — Professor Quadri
- Fosco Giachetti — The Colonel
- José Quaglio — Italo Montanari
- Yvonne Sanson — Giulia's Mother
- Milly — Marcello's Mother
- Antonio Maestri — Confessor
- Alessandro Haber — Drunk Blind Man
- Luciano Rossi — Blind Blond
- Massimo Sarchielli — Blind Man
- Pierangelo Civera — Franz
- Giuseppe Addobbati — Marcello's Father
- Directed
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Written
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 783 ratings
- Studio
- Marianne Productions, Maran Film, Mars Film Produzione
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
