Police Chief Pepe

Police Chief Pepe

1969 · 107 min · IT · 5.9 (20 votes)
Dir. Ettore Scola · Starring Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe Maffioli, Silvia Dionisio, Tano Cimarosa, Marianne Comtell, Michele Capnist · Music Armando Trovajoli
CrimeDrama

A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.

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This is a raw, unflinching look at systemic corruption and hidden desires. It feels like peeling back the veneer of small-town respectability to reveal a rot beneath. Expect a provocative and unsettling experience.

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