A kid murders a child to kill Satan. The church sends a bureaucrat. What could go wrong?
In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself.
Direction
Avati's patient, almost documentary-like restraint.
Production
Dusty 1950s Italy so authentic you can taste the communism.
Director
Pupi Avati
Gabriel Lo Giudice
Furio Momenté
Filippo Franchini
Carlo Mongiorgi
Chiara Sani
Maria Mongiorgi
Fabio Ferrari
Alberto Collatina
Alberto Rossi
Sottosegretario Ministero di Grazia e Giustizia
Enrico Salimbeni
Giocatore Due
Cesare S. Cremonini
Giulio Mongiorgi
Massimo Bonetti
Giudice Marino Malchionda
Lino Capolicchio
Don Dario Zanini
Chiara Caselli
Clara Vestri Musy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Avati based this on real 1950s Italian cases where child 'visionaries' became tools for church and state power struggles.
The film deliberately avoids showing the murder visually—Avati wanted audiences complicit through imagination, not spectacle.
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