A Pure Formality

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 A Pure Formality 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.

A Pure Formality was released in 1994 (IT original-language production), with a runtime of 111 minutes.