Rome in a blood university – Liberation

Fourth film by Pietro Germi reissued by Tamasa, or the name of the Italian filmmaker is still not engraved in letters of fire on the storefront of the cinematheques of the free world – it is up to you to do this job. After The path of hope,, On behalf of the law and its indisputable masterpiece Seduced and abandonedhook by the beginnings with Lost youthsecond feature film by the director, released in 1948. Not banal choice but which has his reasons: without being obvious in Germi's filmography,, Lost youth is a blatant case, rather rare and frankly brilliant, of crossing between Italian neorealism and American black film. Marmaille spying in the kitchen and butorships chapeauteed in dark costumes, coffees on cracked counter and neon lights in the dark: everything is there, impeccably balanced and perfect tempo, swayed dry, rustic and without honey.

In Rome, a man is killed during a robbery. Suspecting a band of students, an inspector infiltrates university. There follows the scathing and highly stylized painting of a youth in full social failure in an amoral society, unable to go up the slope of the Second World War. With the center, Stefano Manfredi, psychopath with wax faces and the fused silhouette interpreted