A mobster crashes Italian domesticity — what could possibly go wrong?
Acting
Gino Cervi's menacing charisma dominates every frame.
Direction
Bianchi traps you in that apartment with them.
Director
Giorgio Bianchi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in 1947, this captures Italy's struggle to process fascist complicity through crime allegory.
Bianchi shot this in real Roman apartments, giving that suffocating authenticity no studio could replicate.
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