A locked-room mystery with a twist: A slickly successful businessman wakes up next to his dead lover and becomes the chief suspect. His defense lawyer's never lost a case, but can even she help him?

When beautiful police detective Anna Manni follows the bloody trail of a sophisticated serial murderer/rapist through the streets of Italy, the young woman falls victim to the bizarre "Stendhal Syndrome" - a hallucinatory phenomenon which causes her to lose her mind and memory in the presence of powerful works of art.

Bruno Ganz gives a tour-de-force performance as Hoffman, an innocent bystander who survives a gunshot to the head by the police during a raid on a group of revolutionaries.

Once upon a time, in a small family suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it's an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it's the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque facade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.

In this elegant and chilling story about world politics, the great Toni Servillo (*The Great Beauty*) defies expectations playing two roles, imbuing each character with nuance and astonishing attention to detail. In the first, he personifies political failure in the role of the disgraced ideologue and party leader, Enrico Oliveri. In the second, he embodies Oliveri's shrewd but unhinged twin brother, who seizes control of the nation amidst the void of his brother's disappearance. As director Roberto Andò shifts between the failure of the sincere intellectual and the heroics of a madman, he probes the driving forces behind our contemporary global political reality leaving behind a rich web of questions in this unpredictable and provocative thriller. Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **Golden Globes, Italy.** Winner of Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor at the **David di Donatello Awards**. *"An ingenious blend of high drama and surprising whimsy." - Tom Keogh, **The Seattle Times***