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Status
Released
Release
1977
Runtime
1h 52m
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A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
21 Cast Members
Shelley Winters
Lea
Max von Sydow
Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
Renato Pozzetto
Stella Kraus / Carabiniere
Alberto Lionello
Berta Maner / Banker
Laura Antonelli
Sandra
Mario Scaccia
Rosario
Franco Branciaroli
Priest Don Onorio
Milena Vukotić
Tina
Rita Tushingham
Maria
Adriana Asti
Palma
Antonio Marsina
Michele
Liù Bosisio
Crippled Neighbor
Maria Monti
Second Neighbor
Giancarlo Badessi
Lisa's Friend
Marco Modugno
Student
Alberto Squillante
Carabiniere
Franco Balducci
Gérard Caillaud
Man in Police Station (uncredited)
Catharina Dahlin
Woman at Party (uncredited)
Giovanni Morosi
Man in Church (uncredited)
