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The Key

Name: The Key
Director: Tinto Brass
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1983
Rating: 6
Cast: Stefania Sandrelli, Frank Finlay, Franco Branciaroli, Barbara Cupisti, Armando Marra

In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.

1983 · Directed by Tinto Brass · 110 min · Drama · Romance · 10 frames

Tagline

TOO HOT for Italian cinemas! Judges close down all theatres screening "THE KEY"!

Crew

Written by: Tinto Brass
Cinematography: Silvano Ippoliti
Edited by: Tinto Brass
Music: Ennio Morricone
Production design: Paolo Biagetti
Produced by: Giovanni Bertolucci

Cast

Stefania Sandrelli as Teresa Rolfe
Frank Finlay as Nino Rolfe
Franco Branciaroli as Laszlo Apony
Barbara Cupisti as Lisa Rolfe
Armando Marra
Maria Grazia Bon as Giulietta
Gino Cavalieri as Don Rusetto
Piero Bortoluzzi as Memo Longobardi
Irma Veithen as The Nurse
Eolo Capritti

Production

Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Studios: Selenia Cinematografica, International Video Service, San Francisco Film
Themes: infidelity, jealousy, husband wife relationship, sexual obsession, obsession, key, fascism, diary, perversion, sexploitation

More by Tinto Brass

Salon Kitty — 1976
P.O. Box Tinto Brass — 1995
Caligula — 1979

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