Down the Ancient Stairs (1975) — drama film. Directed by Mauro Bolognini. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara Bouchet, Françoise Fabian, Silvano Tranquilli. This page maps 3 characters and 3 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A closed psychiatric world is destabilized when intellectual opposition and personal resistance expose the insecurity beneath institutional authority.
Drama · 5.5/10 · 110 min · 1975
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him?
Related entry on Wikidata (Q973346), public domain (CC0).
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