A prostitute is murdered by night in a Roman park. One by one the police interview the men who were in vicinity at the time-a petty thief, a hen-pecked pimp, a soldier on leave, a waiter and a pair of awkward lads keen to impress their girlfiends....
On Capri, an Italian crew makes a German film of Homer's Odyssey; Fritz Lang directs with American money. Prokosch, the producer, with his sneer and red Alfa, holds art films in contempt and hires writer Javal to help Lang commercialize the picture.
A retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend and forced to rent them an apartment on the ...
Carl Theodor Dreyer made this film during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and, similar to the way Arthur Miller demonised the Hayes Code in his play 'The Crucible', DAY OF WRATH uses the larger narrative of witch-hunts to point out the paranoid obs...