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A Pure Formality is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Giuseppe Tornatore released in USA on 26 may 1995 with Gérard Depardieu
A Pure Formality (1994)
Una pura formalità
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Add to a movie listA Pure Formality (Italian: Una Pura Formalità) is a 1994 Italian-French drama thriller film co-written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It stars Gérard Depardieu as a reclusive writer and Roman Polanski as a police detective.
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Onoff (Depardieu) is a famous writer who is now a recluse. The Inspector (Polanski) is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. As the head of an isolated, rural police station the Inspector tries to establish events through careful interrogation and deduction. By painstaking inquiry, he clears up a mysterious killing and brings the writer a new and strange realisation.Actors
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