ROBERTO SUCCO ANYONE?

[Toby]

Roberto Succo

Starring: Stefano Cassetti, Isild Le Besco, Patrick Dell'Isola

Directed by: Cedric Kahn

In 1986 Roberto Succo escaped from an Italian mental institution, where he had been incarcerated for the brutal murder of his parents, and went into hiding in France. Travelling between the Mediterranean and the mountains of Savoy, Succo left a trail of inexplicable murders, rapes and abductions which the police investigators struggled to connect. Cedric Kahn's gripping dramatisation of true events gives a terrifying insight into the disturbed mind of a serial killer and also follows the desperate attempts by the police to hunt him down. Stefano Cassetti gives a riveting, extraordinarily intense performance as the psychotic Succo, who was declared France's public enemy number one.

Based on a true story! An extraordinary and disturbing movie.
Check it out!

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[SAI]

Great Movie. I've been meaning to get this on dvd. Stefano Cassetti is excellent as Succo and I also really ejoyed Isild Le Besco's performance as his girlfriend (and to anyone else who did I recommend Un Moment De Bonheur)

[Deckard]

Sounds right up my alley, Im gunna find this sucka somewhere?! (Im in Oz so who knows??)

I will be back with a few thoughts once I track down...........

[James Logan]

Originally posted by SAI
Great Movie. I've been meaning to get this on dvd. Stefano Cassetti is excellent as Succo and I also really ejoyed Isild Le Besco's performance as his girlfriend...

I agree with all of that, except for Le Besco's performance. It's just plain decent, methinks. Cassetti is impressive, though, and the directing took the smart choice of not judging the characters, which I think makes the flick all the more powerful.