La desconocida

Apartments, northern Italy. Winter light, a child's cough. Irena seeks work, any work, to enter a well-off family's orbit. Her motives remain clouded as she manipulates her way into their lives, their home. Tornatore's thriller plays a long game.

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Giuseppe Tornatore directed La desconocida in 2006. See Giuseppe Tornatore's full filmography, where to start with Giuseppe Tornatore, or where to go after you've seen everything by Giuseppe Tornatore.

La desconocida was released in 2006 (IT original-language production), with a runtime of 118 minutes.