La Commare Secca aka The Grim Reaper

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La Commare Secca

La commare secca

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

Produced by Tonino Cervi

Photography by Giovanni Narzisi

Music by Carlo Rustichelli, Piero Piccioni

Written by Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Citti

1962 0:01

Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a beautiful prostitute whose body is discovered in a park on the day of a torrential rainstorm. One by one, the prime suspects -- girl-crazy teenager Nino, pickpocket Canticchia, a soldier on leave, a tourist and a pimp -- recount the events of the day to the police, each insisting he is innocent.

Staring Carlotta Barilli, Lorenza Benedetti, Clorinda Celani, Vincenzo Ciccora, Alvaro D'Ercole, Giancarlo De Rosa, Elena Fontana, Maria Fontana, Gabriella Giorgelli, Romano Labate, Silvio Laurenzi, Alfredo Leggi, Santina Lisio, Allen Midgette, Ada Peragostini

Produced in Italy by Cineriz, Cinematografica Cervi

Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a beautiful prostitute whose body is discovered in a park on the day of a torrential rainstorm.

La commare secca (literally “The skinny gossip”, English title The Grim Reaper) is the 1962 Italian film written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, based on a short story by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was Bertolucci’s directorial debut at age 21.