Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments.
Acting
Silvana Pampanini's operatic suffering face
Direction
Matarazzo's shadowy domestic horror techniques
Score
Strings that scream before characters do
Director
Raffaello Matarazzo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Matarazzo made nine films with these stars, perfecting what critics later called 'neorealismo d'appendice'—melodrama with social issues dressed in noir style.
Irene Papas plays against type as the 'other woman' before becoming Greece's most iconic tragic actress.
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