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Il MOSTRO (1994)

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Film details

Featuring

Roberto Benigni Nicoletta Braschi Michel Blanc
Director

Roberto Benigni
Countries

France Italy
Year

1994
Genre

Comedy
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

The MONSTER Alternative
MONSTRE Alternative

Synopsis

Black comedy about a serial killer. Loris, a social misfit, is a sexually overwound shyster who is not the least bit interested in getting along with his fellow residents. At a party he gropes the wrong woman who informs a police man that Loris is "the Mozart of Vice", the violent sex killer he has spent 12 years stalking. Hoping to surprise him in the act he tails Loris together with a psychologist, but never get hold of him, even as he strangles cats. So they send police woman Jessica as bait.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Loris
    
    Roberto Benigni
  - Jessica
    
    Nicoletta Braschi
  - Taccone
    
    Michel Blanc
  - Jolanda
    
    Dominique Lavanant
  - Roccarotta
    
    Jean-Claude Brialy
  - Pascucci
    
    Ivano Marescotti
  - Franco Mescolini
  - Laurent Spielvogel
  - Massimo Girotti
  - Guido
    
    Davide Bechini
Credits
- Direction:
  - Roberto Benigni
  - Gianni Arduini
  Production:
  Writing:
  - Vincenzo Cerami
  - Roberto Benigni
  - Story
    
    Roberto Benigni
  Photography:
  - Carlo Di Palma
  Editing:
  - Nino Baragli
  Design:
  - Giantito Burchiellaro
  - Giantito Burchiellaro
  Costumes:
  - Danilo Donati
  Music:
  - Evan Lurie
  Sound:
  - Jean-Pierre Mugel

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