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Fatti di gente perbene (La Grande Bourgeoise/Drama of the Rich
ITALY · 1974

Fatti di gente perbene (La Grande Bourgeoise/Drama of the Rich

Mauro Bolognini
class conflict political persecution judicial injustice domestic abuse Italian nobility
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Synopsis

Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known libera

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