Sanguepazzo (Une histoire italienne) [Wild Blood]

Angelo Barbagallo Presents...

At dawn on the 30 April, 1945, five days after Liberation, two blood-soaked corpses were found in the outskirts of Milan. A freshly painted sign named them: Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida. They had been executed a few hours previously by the partisans. But who were they? Idolized by the public, a famous couple in real life as well as on the screen, Valeti and Ferida were among the stars of "white telephone" (aspirational) cinema which Fascism had wanted to encourage. Comfortable in the roles of charming male rogue and the soulless lost woman, Osvaldo and Luisa had scandalized petit-bourgeois Italy playing anarchic and dissolute characters.