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Down The Ancient Staircase

1975, Movie, NR, 100 mins

Down The Ancient Staircase: Review

Mastroianni is the head doctor at an Italian insane asylum in the 1930s. He has a hypothesis that insanity is caused by a virus, and so, caught up in his studies, he hasn't left the hospital grounds in eight years. A young female doctor, Fabian, arrives and finds that the doctor fears for his own sanity but is making life livable by having affairs with the superintendent's wife (Bose), his assistant (Keller), and his colleague's wife (Bouchet). An allegory of the Fascist reg... read more leave a comment