Twelve-year-old Silvana De Carli falls in love with 30-year-old Gino.Twelve-year-old Silvana De Carli falls in love with 30-year-old Gino.Twelve-year-old Silvana De Carli falls in love with 30-year-old Gino.
Giorgia Moll
- Lorella Severano
- (as Georgia Moll)
Armando Guarnieri
- Police Officer
- (as Armando Guarneri)
Franco Cobianchi
- Man with a Bow Tie
- (uncredited)
Fedele Gentile
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
Renato Malavasi
- Gino Luciani's Employer
- (uncredited)
Nino Nini
- Gino Luciani's Neighbour
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaItalian censorship visa # 31450 delivered on 17-3-1960.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Man with a Cigar in His Mouth (1997)
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A young girl using lipstick for the first time leading to fatal consequences
This is something of a shocker and a very unusual thriller where the main character is a young girl of 14 who lives with her mother, and who has a crush on a handsome neighbour in the opposite house, whom she watches through the window as he plays the guitar. The music of the film is very important and eloquent, underlining the critical psychological moments, as this actually is a psychological thriller. A murder is committed on a prostitute in a shabby hotel, that's the plot, the wrong man is arrested to begin with, but Laura Vivaldi as the young girl has seen her ideal coming out from the hotel and does not know what to think of it. When he learns she has seen something he takes an intimate interest in her, being very exact and concerned about her not telling anything to the police, which only raises suspicions of the audience against him. There are many poignant scenes here in the tradition of Visconti and de Sica, and the neorealism keeps mounting and sharpening as the film goes on, reaching a climax in the final confrontation. This is a jewel not to be missed, eloquently following up the tradition from the early neorealistic masterpieces of Visconti and de Sica.
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- clanciai
- Nov 10, 2023
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- Unschuld im Kreuzverhör
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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