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Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)

Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)

Drama

Dante's Inferno is Alive and Well

Release Date: 1975, October 17
Directors: Mauro Bolognini
Countries: Italy
Cast: Enzo Robutti, Marthe Keller, Adriana Asti, Barbara Bouchet, Marcello Mastroianni, Françoise Fabian, Maria Michi, Lucia Bosè, Ferruccio De Ceresa, Silvano Tranquilli, Charles Fawcett, Pierre Blaise

Overview:

A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him?