Eine reine Formalität

Night. Rain slicking the cobblestones. A scream. Famous novelist Onoff, fugitive from fame, brought in for questioning. An isolated police station, somewhere out of time. A long night of interrogation, a dead body, and a truth stranger than fiction. Tornatore's Euro-thriller anticipates the puzzle-box era.

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Giuseppe Tornatore directed Eine reine Formalität in 1994. See Giuseppe Tornatore's full filmography, where to start with Giuseppe Tornatore, or where to go after you've seen everything by Giuseppe Tornatore.

Eine reine Formalität was released in 1994 (IT original-language production), with a runtime of 111 minutes.