Naked Violence (film)
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| Directed by | Fernando Di Leo |
| Based on | I ragazzi del massacro by Giorgio Scerbanenco |
| Music by | Silvano Spadaccino |
| Cinematography | Franco Villa |
Naked Violence (Italian: I ragazzi del massacro, also known as The Boys Who Slaughter and Sex in the Classroom) is a 1969 Italian crime film directed by Fernando Di Leo and based on the novel with the same name written by Giorgio Scerbanenco.[1]
In 2004 it was restored and shown as part of the retrospective "Storia Segreta del Cinema Italiano: Italian Kings of the Bs" at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.[2]
Plot
In the evening school of Andrea and Maria, in Milan, a group of eleven boys, mostly bad boys and small street criminals between thirteen and twenty, brutally murders the teacher Matilde Crescenzaghi with no apparent reason. The police begins to investigate the murder, but finds no clear evidence or sufficient information to shed light on the mysterious affair. Pressed by the investigating judge who wants to close the case, but also seized by remorse and by their own conscience as a policeman, the police-chief Luigi Càrrua entrusts the case to the Commissioner Lamberti, his friend and collaborator. The latter begins to investigate, remaining impressed by the brutality of the murder, and begins to assume that it was a personal vendetta. Lamberti insists with Càrrua to question the boys in his own way, treating them harshly, and with coercive methods such as using anise milky to intimidate them and using of a language rather threatening and slang, begin to slowly come to the knowledge of important elements: one of the boys was gay and therefore could not take part in the massacre, and some pupils often used to go to Switzerland to illegally smuggle cigarettes and drugs. With the help of the agent Mascaranti and social worker Livia Hussar, Lamberti will soon come to the truth, also helped by the confession of pupil Fiorello Grassi and trust of Carolino Marassi, another pupil at night school where the murder was committed.
Cast
- Pier Paolo Capponi: Commissioner Duca Lamberti
- Susan Scott: Livia Ussaro
- Enzo Liberti: quaestor Luigi Càrrua
- Marzio Margine: Carolino Marassi
- Michel Bardinet: Stelvio Sampero
- Danika La Loggia: Beatrice Romani
References
- ↑ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.
- ↑ Simone Pinchiorri. "Mostra di Venezia 2008: "Storia Segreta del Cinema Italiano: Italian Kings of the Bs"". La Repubblica. Retrieved 18 December 2013.