Why

Why

1971 · 98 min · IT · 7.2 (72 votes)
Dir. Nanni Loy · Starring Alberto Sordi, Elga Andersen, Andrea Aureli, Nazzareno Natale, Michele Gammino, Lino Banfi · Music Carlo Rustichelli
DramaComedy

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

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A maddeningly slow descent into bureaucratic hell. You'll feel the protagonist's growing confusion and frustration as the system grinds him down. It's a darkly funny, yet deeply unsettling, look at how easily innocence can be lost.

absurdistfrustratingdarkly comicbewilderedsteadysatiricalEuropean arthousepolitical commentaryinjusticebureaucracyinnocenceabsurdity
prisonbureaucracyitalianinnocencesatireinjusticevictimization
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