Word: bonaccorsisi
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Madness on the inside, madness on the outside. In a mental hospital in Tuscany, Dr. Bonaccorsisi (Marcello Mastroianni) takes the insanity that rages all around him pretty much in his elegant stride. At times he takes advantage of it too. Pathology has a liberating effect on his libido. He flirts with patients and sleeps with three of the women he sees in the course of work...
Donna Francesca (Lucia Bose), the wife of the hospital director; Bianca (Marthe Keller), a nurse; and Carla (Barbara Bouchet), who is married to a member of Bonaccorsisi's staff. Other, lesser men may thirst for a glimpse of the world out side, but the asylum is sufficient for the doctor, who spends his time between rounds and beddings in the laboratory trying to isolate "the germ of schizophrenia." It is clear he has been inside the walls too long...
...Bersani is a Freudian, and Bonaccorsisi denounces her for her "new ideas." Shortly thereafter, he makes a pass, which is firmly rejected. The doctor goes back to his microscope and believes he has discovered the deadly schizo germ. His future seems assured until Dr. Bersani looks at his slides and tells him the germ is just a drop of faulty solvent. This precipitates a crisis: Bonaccorsisi finally wonders if he is going...
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