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Giuseppe Di Noi (Sordi), on vacation with his wife and two young children, is asked to step into the customs office at the Italian border, "a mere formality" that accelerates from terror to nightmare to catastrophe. Di Noi is charged with manslaughter, the victim a German named Franz Katlenbruner of whom he has never heard. He is transported all over Italy while his wife trails after him with the family camper, trying unsuccessfully to learn something specific about the case against him. Even when Di Noi, after weeks of imprisonment, is finally allowed to see a prison official, he bungles...
...movie is rather abrupt and disconnected, partly because that is the nature of Di Noi's trial, but also because Director Loy too often seems eager to get his character through the course. Sordi's face is India rubber, his body a whole silent vocabulary of bewilderment. He is a grand master of the single, perfect gesture that cannot only shape a scene but punctuate it. Addled after submitting to a quick series of police mug shots, Di Noi is asked for his "other profile" and hastily turns the back of his head to the camera. Protesting...
...series of such miniature combats, of ironies and outrages made acute because they are so palpably possible. Di Noi is too self-effacing for an Everyman, too funny for a Job. He is only ordinary, but through Sordi and Loy he is remarkably and indelibly...
...asked, and 2) why not? In his talks with Rumania's President and party boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, Nixon will probably sound him out on Soviet and Chinese intentions. He may say some confidential things about Viet Nam for Ceausescu to pass along to Ha noi. The President will surely be cautious, however, not to seem to be too cozy. For Nixon is aware that the Ruma nian leader, despite his enlightened and independent foreign policy, runs a repressive police state...
...Except for the loss of life," said the paper, "the raids would have had a comic book character. They were reminiscent of the raids upon the American naval vessels by Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War II. One is almost forced to the conclusion that the men in Ha noi and their backers are motivated by an overwhelming compulsion toward mass, national and individual suicide...