A Pure Formality (Una pura formalita)
Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through interrogatory dialectic, the head of this lonely, isolated, broken-down police station tries to establish what has happened, by delving into the mind of his writer-hero, and clearing up a mysterious killing.
21 December 1959, Grumo Appula, Puglia, Italy
1946
1 January 1922, Messina, Italy
18 August 1933, Paris, France
December 23, 1944 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy
12 June 1947, Naples, Campania, Italy
August 7, 1940 in Busto Arsizio, Lombardy, Italy
27 December 1948, Châteauroux, Indre, France
