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Black Journal (1977) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language
1977 · 112 mins · Italian
Directed by
Mauro Bolognini
Starring
Adriana Asti, Shelley Winters, Laura Antonelli, Max von Sydow, Rita Tushingham, Franco Balducci

An obsessively protective mother, terrified that anything might harm her adult son, strikes a macabre bargain with death, agreeing to supply substitute victims drawn from the other residents of a 1938 Italian apartment building, turning the ordinary block into a deadly hunting ground.

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