A Pure Formality(Una pura formalità)
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Italy, France · 1994
Rated PG-13 · 1h 51m
Director Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Sergio Rubini, Nicola Di Pinto
Genre Mystery, Drama, Crime, Thriller
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Onoff (Depardieu,) is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector (Polanski,) is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.
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