A politician trapped in a car becomes Italy's most absurd hostage crisis.
The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them.
Direction
Wertmüller orchestrates escalating panic like a maestro
Acting
Tognazzi's sweaty desperation is physical comedy gold
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes Italian political chaos
Director
Lina Wertmüller
Ugo Tognazzi
onorevole De Andreis
Renzo Montagnani
ufficiale della Digos
Piera Degli Esposti
moglie di De Andreis
Gastone Moschin
ministro dell'interno
Enzo Jannacci
terrorista
Valeria Golino
Adalgisa De Andreiis
Sergio Solli
un brigadiere
Rodolfo Laganà
Signor Diotaiuti
Roberto Herlitzka
Dottor Crisafulli
Massimo Wertmüller
Beniamino
Pina Cei
Livia Cerini
Marco Balbi
Pier Luigi Misasi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Wertmüller's satirical response to Italy's Years of Lead, mocking how terrorism and political crisis became almost mundane background noise to personal ambition.
The car was a fictional prototype, but the claustrophobic set was built inside an actual Fiat factory—Wertmüller wanted Tognazzi to smell real industrial anxiety.
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