The Designated Victim

Film Description

A true high point in 1970s Italian thriller cinema, this inspired remake of Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train pushes the concept of the original movie into something far more tense and deliciously twisted.

Stefano needs to sort out his troublesome wife who is seriously cramping his future plans. A chance meeting with a wealthy Count Matteo (Pierre Clementi) leads to an extraordinary plan where both will do each other a murderous favour to free them from the people who ail them. The problem is Stefano treats this as a joke whilst Matteo is deadly serious and what he does drives Stefano to the edge of sanity in a gripping race against time.

Shot in a mist-wreathed eerily beautiful Venice this near dream-like melding of thriller with baroque giallo overtones has remained until now a criminally hidden psychological gem.

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Related Genres

• Contemporary Film / Thriller
• World Cinema / Europe
• World Cinema / Italy