

A 60-year-old man loses his wife and finds everything else instead.
The 60-year-old Guido is in a life crisis after his wife left him. His search for her develops more and more into his search for himself and the confrontation with the question of the meaning of life ...
Acting
Alain Cuny's weathered face does the heavy lifting.
Cinematography
Foggy Italian landscapes that mirror Guido's internal fog.
Direction
Del Monte lets silence breathe like a character.

Director
Peter Del Monte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Italy's 1970s 'cinema of crisis,' the film mirrors a nation questioning its own postwar identity through one man's dissolution.
Alain Cuny improvised several monologues after Del Monte locked the crew out of the room; the raw uncertainty is genuine.
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