
A Pure Formality
1994 • 111 minutes
MysteryThrillerCrimeDrama
Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.

Gérard Depardieu
Onoff

Roman Polanski
Inspector

Sergio Rubini
Andre

Nicola Di Pinto
Captain

Tano Cimarosa
Servant

Paolo Lombardi
Marshall
Maria Rosa Spagnolo
Paula
Alberto Sironi

Giovanni Morricone
Mahdi Kraiem

Massimo Vanni

Sebastiano Filocamo

Timothy Martin

Gianluca Petrazzi
Policeman (uncredited)