What? (1972)
Directed by Roman Polanski

Comedy
aka: Che?

Film Synopsis

Nancy, an attractive young American, is hitch-hiking her way down the Italian coastline when she is attacked by a stranger.  Narrowly avoiding being raped, she takes refuge in a grand villa belonging to the ageing English millionaire Joseph Noblart, who is presently hosting one of his lavish parties.  His guests make a colourful crowd, which includes Alex, Noblart's eccentric nephew, a man obsessed with sexual perversions of all kinds.  Nancy is welcomed as a guest and invited to stay.  Graciously she accepts, not knowing that Alex will take advantage of her presence to spy on her through a peep hole in her bedroom wall.  The day after her arrival in this shrine to hedonistic excess, the American begins to fall prey to a succession of bizarre fantasies...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Roman Polanski
  • Script: Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski
  • Cinematographer: Marcello Gatti, Giuseppe Ruzzolini
  • Music: Claudio Gizzi
  • Cast: Marcello Mastroianni (Alex), Sydne Rome (Nancy), Hugh Griffith (Joseph Noblart), Guido Alberti (Priest), Gianfranco Piacentini (Tony), Carlo Delle Piane (Young Oaf 1 in Car), Mario Bussolino (Young Oaf 2 in Car), Henning Schlüter (Catone), Christiane Barry (Dresser), Pietro Tordi (Man-Servant), Nerina Montagnani (Chambermaid), Mogens von Gadow (German), Dieter Hallervorden (German), Elisabeth Witte (Nurse), John Karlsen (Edward), Romolo Valli (Giovanni), Franco Pesce (Enzo), Cicely Browne (Ruth), Renee Langer (Naked Girl with Hat), Richard McNamara (Charlie)
  • Country: Italy / France / West Germany
  • Language: English / Italian / French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 114 min
  • Aka: Che? ; Diary of Forbidden Dreams

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