Il Fornaretto di Venezia (1963) - film review

Venice in the 15th century.  As he does every morning, the young baker Pietro walks through the streets of Venice to deliver bread to his customers.  Arriving at one of the bridges over the canals, Pietro is surprised to come across a man lying on the ground, killed with a knife.  The baker recognizes the dead man as Alvise Guoro, a nobleman who was loved by every woman and hated by every man.  When another man arrives on the bridge and sees Pietro holding the knife, he mistakes him for the killer and Pietro takes flight.  The baker finds shelter in the house of Count Lorenzo Parma, where his girlfriend Anela is employed as a maid.  At the time, Lorenzo is away visiting his mistress Countess Sofia.  When the news of the murder arrives at Sofia’s house, Lorenzo must pass it on to his wife Clemenza, since she is Guoro’s cousin.  Lorenzo thinks that Pietro could be innocent but he cannot prevent the baker from being arrested by a group of judges called the Doges, who are under pressure to arrange a trial and execution as quickly as possible.  When Sofia hears of these developments from Lorenzo, she decides to start her own inquiry to uncover the truth and find the real killer...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)

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