During WWII, Italian soldier Pasqualino Frafuso finds himself transported to where he believes to be Germany. He and another soldier desert their duties. They are captured by German soldiers and thrown into a concentration camp run by a sadistic female commandant. Before the war, he was a self-righteous minor hood who was imprisoned for killing his sister's pimp.
This is interesting. I never got pulled in by the character Pasqualino but his plight is always interesting. He's not a guy to root for but he's never boring. The concentration camp has a good amount of threatening tone. The female commandant never got that threatening for me. It may be more interesting to have a male warden which makes the private sadomasochistic activities more perverse. That may be going too far. This goes far enough for its time. This actually got four Oscar nominations.
This is interesting. I never got pulled in by the character Pasqualino but his plight is always interesting. He's not a guy to root for but he's never boring. The concentration camp has a good amount of threatening tone. The female commandant never got that threatening for me. It may be more interesting to have a male warden which makes the private sadomasochistic activities more perverse. That may be going too far. This goes far enough for its time. This actually got four Oscar nominations.